Countries
China, Nepal
Japan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Palau
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Korean Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3599
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3014
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Sanuki
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kagawa
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hakata
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00127,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kansai
Where They Speak
China
kansai
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00127,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
631
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million128.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.90 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million128.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
日本語
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Nihongo
French Name
tibétain
japonais
German Name
Tibetisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Japanese (Yamato)
Origin
c. 650
1185
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Japanese
Language Position
298
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ja
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
jpn
ISO 639 2/B
tib
jpn
ISO 639 3
bod
jpn
ISO 639 6
bod
jpn
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data Available
45-CAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic