Countries
China, Nepal
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
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.
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
Similar To
Not Available
French Language
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
hola
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Gracias
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Cómo estás?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Buenas Noches
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bonne soirée
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Buenas Tardes
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Buenos Días
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Por Favor
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
triste
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
adiós
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Te Quiero
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Discúlpeme
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Mexican Spanish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Mexico
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Cuban Spanish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Cuba
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Puerto Rican Spanish
Where They Speak
China
Puerto Rico
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Español
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Castellano, Castilian, Español
French Name
tibétain
espagnol; castillan
German Name
Tibetisch
Spanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Spanish and Spanish
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Spanish
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1288
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-b
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic