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Countries

Countries

China, Nepal
China, Mongolia

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Nepal, Tibet
China, Mongolia

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
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)

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.
  • Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
  • There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.

Similar To

Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Turkish Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3535
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

513
0 32
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How Many Consonants

3020
9 60
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Scripts

Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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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Greetings

Hello

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)

Thank You

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)

How Are You?

ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)

Good Night

གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)

Good Evening

དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)

Good Morning

སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)

Please

thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Хэрэв (Kherev)

Sorry

ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)

Bye

ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Баяртай (Bayartai)

I Love You

ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)

Excuse Me

དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Central Tibetan
Khalkha Mongolian

Where They Speak

China, India, Nepal
Mongolia

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Khams Tibetan
Ordos Mongolian

Where They Speak

Bhutan, China
Mongolia

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00123,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Amdo Tibetan
Khorchin Mongolian

Where They Speak

China
Mongolia

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.005,700,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

68
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.20 million5.70 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.05 %0.14 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

1.20 million5.70 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

6.00 million5.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)

Alternative Names

Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat

French Name

tibétain
mongol

German Name

Tibetisch
Mongolisch

Pronunciation

[tibetan]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/

Ethnicity

tibetan people
Mongols

History

Origin

c. 650
1224-1225

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman
Mongolian

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian

Standard Forms

Standard Tibetan
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian

Language Position

2926
1 120
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Signed Forms

Tibetan Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language

Scope

-
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

bo
mn

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bod
mon

ISO 639 2/B

tib
mon

ISO 639 3

bod
mon

ISO 639 6

bod
mon

Glottocode

tibe1272
mong1331

Linguasphere

No data Available
part of 44-BAA-b

Types of Language

Language Type

-
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
-

Tibetan and Mongolian Alphabets

Tibetan and Mongolian Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Tibetan and Mongolian. In Tibetan Alphabets there are 35 letters while in Mongolian Alphabets there are 35 letters. To learn Tibetan and Mongolian languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Tibetan and Mongolian languages. The Tibetan phonology consist Tibetan vowels and Tibetan consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Tibetan greetings vs Mongolian greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Tibetan and Mongolian are Most Spoken Languages.

All Tibetan and Mongolian 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 Mongolian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Mongolian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Mongolian Dialects are spoken in different Mongolian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Mongolian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Mongolian dialects include: Khalkha Mongolian , Ordos Mongolian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Tibetan and Mongolian Speaking population

Tibetan and Mongolian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Mongolian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Mongolian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Mongolian language is 0.14 %. 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 Mongolian on Tibetan vs Mongolian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Mongolian Language Codes

Tibetan and Mongolian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Mongolian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.