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Tibetan and Turkish


Turkish and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
11  
5

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Turkey  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Turkish Language Association  

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.
  
  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Azerbaijani Language  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Merhaba  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
teşekkür ederim  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Nasılsın?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
İyi Geceler  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
İyi Akşamlar  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Tünaydın  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
günaydın  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
lütfen  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
üzgünüm  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Hoşçakal  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Seni seviyorum  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Afedersiniz  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Azerbaijani Turkish  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
26,000,000.00  
25

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Crimean Turkish  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
480,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Gagauz  

Where They Speak
China  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
140,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
9  
9

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
75.00 million  
23

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.95 %  
22

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
60.00 million  
20

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
15.00 million  
34

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Türkçe  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Anatolian, Türkisch  

French Name
tibétain  
turc  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Türkisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Turkish  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 1350  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Turkic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Turkic  

Branch
-  
Southwestern(Oghuz)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)  

Language Position
29  
27
19  
17

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Turkish Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
tr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
tur  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
tur  

ISO 639 3
bod  
tur  

ISO 639 6
bod  
tur  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
nucl1301  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
44-AAB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Synthetic  

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All Tibetan and Turkish 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 Turkish dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Turkish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Turkish Dialects are spoken in different Turkish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Turkish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Turkish dialects include: Azerbaijani Turkish , Crimean Turkish. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Turkish Speaking population

Tibetan and Turkish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Turkish languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Turkish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Turkish language is 0.95 %. 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 Turkish on Tibetan vs Turkish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Turkish Language Codes

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

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