Countries
China, Nepal
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
Total No. Of Countries
210
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Portugal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Spanish and Galician Languages
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3523
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3019
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Olá
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
obrigado
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Como você está?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
boa noite
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
boa Noite
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
boa Tarde
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
bom Dia
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Por Favor
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pesaroso
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
tchau
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Eu te amo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
desculpe me
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Brazilian Portuguese
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Brazil
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00204,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
European Portuguese
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Portugal
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Where They Speak
China
Daman and Diu
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.004,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
626
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million231.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %3.27 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million216.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Português
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Português
French Name
tibétain
portugais
German Name
Tibetisch
Portugiesisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Portuguese people or portugueses
Origin
c. 650
3rd Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Portuguese
Language Position
296
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Portuguese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
pt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
por
ISO 639 2/B
tib
por
ISO 639 3
bod
por
ISO 639 6
bod
por
Glottocode
tibe1272
port1283
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-