Countries
China, Nepal
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3537
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3046
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Mhoro
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Manheru
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Masikati
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Mangwanani
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndineurombo
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Hwesa
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Karanga
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Zezuru
Where They Speak
China
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
tibétain
shona
German Name
Tibetisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Shona people
Origin
c. 650
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Shona
Language Position
29107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
sna
ISO 639 2/B
tib
sna
ISO 639 3
bod
sna
ISO 639 6
bod
sna
Glottocode
tibe1272
core1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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