Countries
China, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3525
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3018
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
Kamusta
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Salamat po
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Magandang umaga po
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
pakiusap
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pinagsisisihan
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Paálam
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Filipino
Where They Speak
China
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million73.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million28.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
tibétain
tagalog
German Name
Tibetisch
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Tagalog people
Origin
c. 650
1593
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Filipino
Language Position
2958
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Tagalog
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
tib
tgl
ISO 639 3
bod
tg1
ISO 639 6
bod
tgl
Glottocode
tibe1272
taga1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-