Countries
China, Nepal
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Yemen
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hello
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Fadlan
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
sorry
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
China
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0021.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
tibétain
somali
German Name
Tibetisch
Somali
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Somalis
Origin
c. 650
19th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Somali
Language Position
2983
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
som
ISO 639 2/B
tib
som
ISO 639 3
bod
som
ISO 639 6
bod
som
Glottocode
tibe1272
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-