Tibetan and Oromo
Countries
China, Nepal
Ethiopia, Kenya
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
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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
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Orma
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Kenya
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Wata
Where They Speak
China
Kenya
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Cushitic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Afaan Oromo
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Oromo Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1736
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Oromo 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 Oromo dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Oromo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Oromo Dialects are spoken in different Oromo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Oromo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Oromo dialects include: Borana , Orma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Oromo Speaking population
Tibetan and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. 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 Oromo on Tibetan vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Oromo Language Codes
Tibetan and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.