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Tibetan and Mossi


Mossi and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Burkina Faso  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo  

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  
-  

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.
  
  • Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
  • Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Dagbani Language  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
16  
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
30 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Kia ora  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Laafi bala  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Laafi beme ?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Ne y yungo  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
ne y zabre  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Kia ora  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Ne y yibeogo  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
gafare  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
gafare  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Wend na kon-d nindaare  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Kei te aroha au ki a koe  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Y gafare  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Ouapadoupou  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Burkina Faso  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
7,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Saremde  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Burkina Faso  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
7,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Taolende  

Where They Speak
China  
Burkina Faso  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
7,000,000.00  
33

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
8  
8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
7.60 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.11 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
7.60 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Mosse  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi  

French Name
tibétain  
moré  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Mossi-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[mɔ̀ːsì]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Mossi  

History

Origin
c. 650  
11th Century AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Western Sudanic  

Branch
-  
Gur (Voltaic)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Mossi  

Language Position
29  
27
37  
34

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Mossi Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
No data Available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
mos  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
mos  

ISO 639 3
bod  
mos  

ISO 639 6
bod  
mos  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
moss1236  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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

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Tibetan and Mossi Speaking population

Tibetan and Mossi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Mossi languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Mossi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Mossi language is 0.11 %. 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 Mossi on Tibetan vs Mossi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Mossi Language Codes

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

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