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Tibetan and Vietnamese


Vietnamese and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Vietnam  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Vietnam  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Czech Republic  

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.
  
  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Chinese Language  

Derived From
-  
Chinese Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
37  
19

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Xin chào  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Cam on  

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Chúc ngủ ngon  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Chào buổi tối  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Chào buổi trưa  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Chào buổi sáng  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
xin vui lòng  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Xin lỗi  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
tôi yêu bạn  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Northern Vietnamese  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
76,000,000.00  
11

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
North-central Vietnamese  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
76,000,000.00  
9

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Mid-Central Vietnamese  

Where They Speak
China  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
76,000,000.00  
8

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
5  
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
91.00 million  
16

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
1.14 %  
17

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
75.00 million  
14

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
16.00 million  
33

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
tiếng việt (㗂越)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet  

French Name
tibétain  
vietnamien  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Vietnamesisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 1440  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Standard Vietnamese  

Language Position
29  
27
14  
13

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Vietnamese sign languages  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
vi  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
vie  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
vie  

ISO 639 3
bod  
vie  

ISO 639 6
bod  
vie  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
viet1252  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
46-EBA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Analytic, Isolating  

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

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Tibetan and Vietnamese Speaking population

Tibetan and Vietnamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Vietnamese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Vietnamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 %. 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 Vietnamese on Tibetan vs Vietnamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

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