Countries
China, Nepal
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
North Korea, South Korea
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3540
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
521
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3019
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Jeju
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
South Korea
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
South Korea
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
China
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0077,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million77.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million77.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million77.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
tibétain
coréen
German Name
Tibetisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[hangukmal]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Koreans
Origin
c. 650
Before 1st century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
2912
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Korean Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ko
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kor
ISO 639 2/B
tib
kor
ISO 639 3
bod
Kor
ISO 639 6
bod
kor
Glottocode
tibe1272
kore1280
Linguasphere
No data Available
45-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative