Countries
China, Nepal
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Kazakh language agency
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.
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3524
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3017
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
өтінемін (ötinemin)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northeastern Kazakh
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kazakhstan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0018,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Southern Kazakh
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Kazakhstan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0018,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Western Kazakh
Where They Speak
China
Kazakhstan
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0018,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million11.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.17 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million11.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million18.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
French Name
tibétain
kazakh
German Name
Tibetisch
Kasachisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kazahks
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Turkic
Branch
-
Northwestern (Kipchak)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kazakh
Language Position
2993
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Kazakh Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
kk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kaz
ISO 639 2/B
tib
kaz
ISO 639 3
bod
kaz
ISO 639 6
bod
kaz
Glottocode
tibe1272
kaza1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative