Countries
China, Nepal
Ethiopia, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Somalia
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.
- Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
- Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Somali Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3534
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3024
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
akkam
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Galatoomi
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Attam jirta/jirtu?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Nagayattii buli
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Akkam waarite
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Attam oolte / ooltan
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Attam bulte/bultan
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Maaloo
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
naa dhiisi
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Nagayattii!
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Sin jaaladha
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Maaloo na dabarsi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Borana
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Ethiopia, Kenya
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.004,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Orma
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Kenya
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0066,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Wata
Where They Speak
China
Kenya
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0013,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
617
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.36 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Afaan Oromo
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Afaan Oromoo
French Name
tibétain
galla
German Name
Tibetisch
Galla-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ɔrɔmɔ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Oromos
Origin
c. 650
16
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Afaan Oromo
Language Position
2991
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
om
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
orm
ISO 639 2/B
tib
orm
ISO 639 3
bod
orm
ISO 639 6
bod
orm
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-