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Tibetan and Ilocano


Ilocano and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Philippines   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Philippines   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Commission on the Filipino Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
  • Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
  • Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
  • Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Ilocano-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
32   
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
20   
10

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Ilokano Braille, Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
Not Available   

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Kablaaw   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Agyamanak   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Kumusta?   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Naimbag a rabii   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Naimbag a sardam   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Naimbag a malem   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Naimbag a bigat   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Not available   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Agpakawanak   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Pakada   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Ayayatenka   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Maawan-dayawen   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Balangao   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Philippines   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
21,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Bontoc   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Philippines   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
41,000.00   
39

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Not present   

Where They Speak
China   
Not present   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
2   
2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
9.10 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.14 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
9.10 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
ilokano   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Ilokano, Iloko   

French Name
tibétain   
ilocano   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Ilokano-Sprache   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Ilocano people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
18th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Ilocano   

Language Position
Not Available   
94   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
No data available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
ilo   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
ilo   

ISO 639 3
bod   
ilo   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
ilok1237   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
31-CBA-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Tibetan and Ilocano Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Ilocano dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Ilocano language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Ilocano Dialects are spoken in different Ilocano speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Ilocano Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Ilocano dialects include: Balangao , Bontoc. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Ilocano Speaking population

Tibetan and Ilocano speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Ilocano languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Ilocano Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Ilocano language is 0.14 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Ilocano on Tibetan vs Ilocano where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Ilocano Language Codes

Tibetan and Ilocano language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Ilocano Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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