Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Botswana, Lesotho
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
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Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3043
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
Molo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Unjani
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Molo
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndicela
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Thembu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hlubi
Where They Speak
China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0019.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
69
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million11.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
tibétain
xhosa
German Name
Tibetisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 650
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
isiXhosa
Language Position
2921
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
xh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
xho
ISO 639 2/B
tib
xho
ISO 639 3
bod
xho
ISO 639 6
bod
xho
Glottocode
tibe1272
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fa
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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