Countries
China, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3551
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3035
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
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)
Namaskara
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
yedde kaande
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Daya maltadu
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Barpe
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Jain
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Girijan
Where They Speak
China
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million1.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
tibétain
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German Name
Tibetisch
Tulu
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Tuluva
Origin
c. 650
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Tulu
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
tib
tul
ISO 639 3
bod
tcy
ISO 639 6
bod
tcy
Glottocode
tibe1272
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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