Countries
China, Nepal
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3548
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
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)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good afternoon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Doteli
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
China
Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million25.00 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)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
tibétain
népalais
German Name
Tibetisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
c. 650
19 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Nepali
Language Position
2959
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
nep
ISO 639 2/B
tib
nep
ISO 639 3
bod
npi
ISO 639 6
bod
nep
Glottocode
tibe1272
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative