Countries
Countries
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
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.
Similar To
Not Available
Derived From
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0
32
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How Many Consonants
30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialects
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
1400
96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
Not Available
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
Not Available
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
tibétain
German Name
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
History
Origin
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Code
ISO 639 1
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ISO 639 3
bod
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available