Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
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.
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Hindi Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3041
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks6 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Pothohari
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Saraiki
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0020,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Doabi
Where They Speak
China
Pakistan, Punjab, India
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00130,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
630
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million154.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.44 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million100.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million54.30 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
French Name
tibétain
pendjabi
German Name
Tibetisch
Pandschabi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
Not Availble
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Punjabis
Origin
c. 650
1000 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Punjabi
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
bo
pa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
pan
ISO 639 2/B
tib
pan
ISO 639 3
bod
pan
ISO 639 6
bod
panj
Glottocode
tibe1272
panj1256
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional