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Tibetan and Tulu


Tulu and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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  
-  

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
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
51  
30

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
16  
13

How Many Consonants
30  
20
35  
25

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Kannada Script  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Brahmin tulu  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Tamil Nadu  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
2,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Jain  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Tamil Nadu  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
1,900,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Girijan  

Where They Speak
China  
Tamil Nadu  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
2.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
1.70 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.01 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
1.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
2.00 million  
99+

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  
-  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Tulu  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ˈtulu]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Tuluva  

History

Origin
c. 650  
14  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Dravidian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Tulu  

Language Position
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Tulu  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Tibetan and Tulu Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Tulu dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Tulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Tulu Dialects are spoken in different Tulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Tulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Tulu dialects include: Brahmin tulu , Jain. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Tulu Speaking population

Tibetan and Tulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Tulu languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Tulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tulu language is 0.01 %. 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 Tulu on Tibetan vs Tulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Tulu Language Codes

Tibetan and Tulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Tulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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