Countries
China, Nepal
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3554
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
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)
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Vedda
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
-
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
tibétain
singhalais
German Name
Tibetisch
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Sinhalese people
Origin
c. 650
3
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
2970
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
sin
ISO 639 2/B
tib
sin
ISO 639 3
bod
sin
ISO 639 6
bod
sin
Glottocode
tibe1272
sinh1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional