Countries
China, Nepal
Benin, Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Yoruba Academy
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 largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3017
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
Ẹ n lẹ
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
e dupe
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Bawo ni o se wa
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Kasun layọ o
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ka a ale
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
e kaasan
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
e kaaro
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Jowo
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
binu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
mo nifẹ rẹ
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
mo tọrọ gafara
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ede
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Benin, Togo
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
China
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0010,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million28.00 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)
Yorùbá
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Yariba, Yooba
French Name
tibétain
yoruba
German Name
Tibetisch
Yoruba-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[jòɾùbá]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Yoruba people
Origin
c. 650
4 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic
Branch
-
Kwa
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Yorùbá
Language Position
2949
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
yo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
yor
ISO 639 2/B
tib
yor
ISO 639 3
bod
yor
ISO 639 6
bod
yor
Glottocode
tibe1272
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic, Isolating