Countries
China, Nepal
Wales
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Wales
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
Argentina, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Welsh Language Commissioner
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.
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
English Language
Derived From
-
British Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Helô
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Diolch
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Sut ydych chi?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Nos da
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Noswaith dda
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
P'nawn da
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bore da
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
os gwelwch yn dda
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Hwyl
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Dw i'n dy garu di
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Esgusodwch fi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Patagonian Welsh
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Argentina
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0038,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Y Wyndodeg
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Gwynedd
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00700,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Y Bowyseg
Where They Speak
China
Powys
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.70 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cymraeg
French Name
tibétain
gallois
German Name
Tibetisch
Kymrisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Welsh people
Origin
c. 650
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Celtic
Branch
-
Brythonic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Welsh
Language Position
2931
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Welsh Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
cy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
cym
ISO 639 2/B
tib
wel
ISO 639 3
bod
cym
ISO 639 6
bod
cym
Glottocode
tibe1272
wels1247
Linguasphere
No data Available
50-ABA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional