Countries
China, Nepal
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian 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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3022
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
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)
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
будь ласк
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Podillian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Volynian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Steppe
Where They Speak
China
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
615
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million39.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.46 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million39.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
tibétain
ukrainien
German Name
Tibetisch
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Ukrainians
Origin
c. 650
1561
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
2926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ukr
ISO 639 3
bod
ukr
ISO 639 6
bod
ukr
Glottocode
tibe1272
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic