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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   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Old German Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
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   
Not Available   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Not present   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Not Available   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Not present   

Where They Speak
China   
Not Available   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
14.10 million   
99+

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Not Available   

French Name
tibétain   
sanskrit   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Sanskrit   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[səmskr̩t̪əm]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Not Available   

History

Origin
c. 650   
2000 B.C.   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Not Available   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Vedic Sanskrit   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Sanskrit   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
sans1269   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Ancient   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
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 Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is Not Available. 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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