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Tibetan and Sanskrit


Sanskrit and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
India  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
-  

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.
  
  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Old German Language  

Derived From
-  
Prakrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
52  
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
16  
13

How Many Consonants
30  
20
36  
26

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Devanagari  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
20 weeks  
5

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
शुभः सायंकालः  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
शुभ दुपार  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
कृपया (kripayā)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
140,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
140,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
China  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
140,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
0  

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
14.10 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.01 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
14.10 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
-  

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam  

French Name
tibétain  
sanskrit  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Sanskrit  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Sanskrit speakers  

History

Origin
c. 650  
2000 B.C.  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Vedic Sanskrit  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Sanskrit  

Language Position
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
-  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
sa  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
san  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
san  

ISO 639 3
bod  
san  

ISO 639 6
bod  
san  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
sans1269  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Ancient  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Synthetic  

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

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Tibetan and Sanskrit Speaking population

Tibetan and Sanskrit speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Sanskrit languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Sanskrit Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is 0.01 %. 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 Sanskrit on Tibetan vs Sanskrit where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Sanskrit Language Codes

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

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