Countries
China, Nepal
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
- Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Aymara and Guarani Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3531
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3026
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Rimaykullayki
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Solpayki
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Allillanchu
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Allin tuta
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wuynas nuchis
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wuynas tardis
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Wuynus diyas
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
jamuspa
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Pampachaykuway
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kuyayki
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pampachaway
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ancash
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Peru
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00920,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Huánuco
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Peru
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00190,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Yaru
Where They Speak
China
Peru
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00150,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million8.90 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.90 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Qhichwa
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
North La Paz Quechua
French Name
tibétain
quechua
German Name
Tibetisch
Quechua-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈketʃwa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Quechua
Origin
c. 650
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Quechumaran Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Andean Equatorial
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Quechua
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Quechua
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
qu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
que
ISO 639 2/B
tib
que
ISO 639 3
bod
que
ISO 639 6
bod
que
Glottocode
tibe1272
quec1387
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic