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Tibetan and Shona


Shona and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Zimbabwe   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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   
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.
  
  • 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
Not Available   
Kalanga and Nambya Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
Not Available   

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
46   
34

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
Not Available   

Greetings

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Hwesa   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Zimbabwe   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Karanga   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
southern Zimbabwe   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Zezuru   

Where They Speak
China   
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
4   
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
25.00 million   
40

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.13 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
8.30 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Not Available   

History

Origin
c. 650   
20th century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Niger-Congo Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Benue-Congo   

Branch
Not Available   
Bantu   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Not Available   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Not Available   

Language Position
Not Available   
107   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
core1255   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
99-AUT-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Tibetan and Shona Speaking population

Tibetan and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 %. 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 Shona on Tibetan vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Shona Language Codes

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

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