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Portuguese and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
10  
6

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
23  
5

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
9  
6

How Many Consonants
30  
20
19  
9

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Brazilian Portuguese  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Brazil  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
204,000,000.00  
5

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
European Portuguese  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Portugal  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
10,000,000.00  
37

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole  

Where They Speak
China  
Daman and Diu  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
4,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
26  
22

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
231.00 million  
7

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
3.27 %  
7

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
216.00 million  
5

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
15.00 million  
34

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  

History

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
29  
27
6  
6

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Portuguese  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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  
51-AAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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

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Tibetan and Portuguese Speaking population

Tibetan and Portuguese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Portuguese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Portuguese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Portuguese language is 3.27 %. 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 Portuguese on Tibetan vs Portuguese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Portuguese Language Codes

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

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