Countries
China, Nepal
Meghalaya
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
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Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Alphabets in
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Khasi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kumno
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Khublei
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
thia sukh
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
khublei
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sngewbha
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Map
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
khublei
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
map a nga
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bhoi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Cherrapunji
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
tibétain
khasi
German Name
Tibetisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Khasi people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Khasi
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
Glottocode
tibe1272
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Khasi 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 Khasi dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Khasi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Khasi Dialects are spoken in different Khasi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Khasi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Khasi dialects include: Bhoi , Nonglung. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Khasi Speaking population
Tibetan and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. 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 Khasi on Tibetan vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Khasi Language Codes
Tibetan and Khasi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Khasi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.