Countries
China, Nepal
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, kerala, Puducherry
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Official language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur Tamil University
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.
- Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago.
- The first legally recognized Classical Language of India is Tamil.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Malayalam
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
35247
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3018
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Tamil
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)
வணக்கம் (Vanakkam)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
நன்றி (Naṉṟi)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்? (Nīṅkaḷ eppaṭi irukkiṟīrkaḷ?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
நல்ல இரவு (Good night) / irravu vanakkam (Good night)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
நல்ல மாலை (Nalla mālai)/ மாலை (irravu vanakkam)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
பிற்பகல் வணக்கம் (perpagal vanakkam)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
காலை வணக்கம் (Kaalai Vanakkam)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
தயவு (Tayavu)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
மன்னிக்கவும் (Maṉṉikkavum)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
சென்று வருகிறேன் (Sendru Varukiren)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன் (Naan Unnai Kadalikiren)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
என்னை மன்னியுங்கள் (Eṉṉai maṉṉiyuṅkaḷ)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kongu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kongu
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0077,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Madurai Tamil
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0077,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tirunelveli Tamil
Where They Speak
China
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0077,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million78.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.06 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million70.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
தமிழ்
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili
French Name
tibétain
tamoul
German Name
Tibetisch
Tamil
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[t̪ɐmɨɻ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Tamil people or Tamilans
Origin
c. 650
300 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Tamil
Language Position
2918
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Tamil
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ta
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
tam
ISO 639 2/B
tib
tam
ISO 639 3
bod
tam
ISO 639 6
bod
tam
Glottocode
tibe1272
tami1289, oldt1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
tami1289
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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