Countries
China, Nepal
Japan
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
Alphabets in
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Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hakata
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Fukuoka
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kansai
Where They Speak
China
kansai
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)
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Japanese
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data Available
45-CAA-a
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic
All Tibetan and Japanese 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 Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Japanese Speaking population
Tibetan and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Tibetan vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Japanese Language Codes
Tibetan and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.