Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Latvia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Latvian State Language Center
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3024
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
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)
Sveiki
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Paldies
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labdien
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Labrīt
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
lūdzu
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Piedodiet!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Livonian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Latvia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Latvia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
High Latvian
Where They Speak
China
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1.75 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million1.75 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lettish
French Name
tibétain
letton
German Name
Tibetisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈlætviən]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Latvians or Letts
Origin
c. 650
1530
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Baltic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Latvian
Language Position
299
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
lv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
lav
ISO 639 2/B
tib
lav
ISO 639 3
bod
lav
ISO 639 6
bod
lav
Glottocode
tibe1272
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data Available
54-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic