Countries
China, Nepal
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
Total No. Of Countries
27
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
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.
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
French and Portuguese Languages
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3521
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ciao
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
grazie
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Come stai?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
buonanotte
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
buonasera
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
buon pomeriggio
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
buongiorno
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Per Favore
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
scusate
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
arrivederci
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ti amo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Scusami
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Romanesco
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Lazio
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.003,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Italian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tuscan
Where They Speak
China
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million78.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million64.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million14.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Italiano
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Italiano
French Name
tibétain
italien
German Name
Tibetisch
Italienisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[itaˈljaːno]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Italians
Origin
c. 650
960 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Italian
Language Position
2927
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
it
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ita
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ita
ISO 639 3
bod
ita
ISO 639 6
bod
itas
Glottocode
tibe1272
ital1282
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-q
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic