Countries
China, Nepal
Burma
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3521
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3019
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Bwakeye
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Urakoze
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Mwaramutse
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndagusavye
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndasubiza
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
N’agasaga
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndi waramutse
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Ndasaba
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ha
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00990,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Shubi
Where They Speak
China
Tanzania
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00153,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million8.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Rundi, Urundi
French Name
tibétain
rundi
German Name
Tibetisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kɪˈrʊndi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Origin
c. 650
1500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kirundi
Language Position
2986
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Kirundi Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
bo
rn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
run
ISO 639 2/B
tib
run
ISO 639 3
bod
run
ISO 639 6
bod
run
Glottocode
tibe1272
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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