Countries
China, Nepal
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
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
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Tamil
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Madurai Tamil
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tirunelveli Tamil
Where They Speak
China
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Tamil
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Tamil
Glottocode
tibe1272
tami1289, oldt1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
tami1289
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Tamil Speaking population
Tibetan and Tamil speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Tamil languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Tamil Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tamil language is 1.06 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Tamil on Tibetan vs Tamil where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Tamil Language Codes
Tibetan and Tamil language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Tamil Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.