Countries
China, Nepal
China, Mongolia
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
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Mongolia
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Mongolia
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
China
Mongolia
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Mongolian
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data Available
part of 44-BAA-b
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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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.