×

Tibetan
Tibetan




ADD
Compare

Tibetan Language

Add ⊕

Countries

Countries

China, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries

2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
0 46
👆🏻

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
👆🏻

Phonology

How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
0 32
👆🏻

How Many Consonants

30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
9 60
👆🏻

Scripts

Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
2 12
👆🏻

Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
3 88
👆🏻

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
👆🏻

Dialect 2

Khams Tibetan

Where They Speak

Bhutan, China

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
700 80000000
👆🏻

Dialect 3

Amdo Tibetan

Where They Speak

China

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
1400 96000000
👆🏻

Total No. Of Dialects

6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
0 188
👆🏻

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
0.13 1200
👆🏻

Speaking Population

Not Available
0.11 89
👆🏻

Native Speakers

1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
0.13 873
👆🏻

Second Language Speakers

Not Available
0.01 400
👆🏻

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
👆🏻

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

Origin of Tibetan language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Tibetan language is one of the Easiest Languages to Learn. The origin of Tibetan language states that it was put to use in c. 650. The history of Tibetan language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Tibetan Language History.The evolution of Tibetan language began with early forms such as Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan. Standard Tibetan is the standard form of Tibetan language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Tibetan Language.

Tibetan population

Tibetan population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Tibetan language. Tibetan language is spoken by 1.20 million people in the world. Most of the Tibetan population lies in the Tibetan Speaking Countries. Tibetan language is spoken as first language by 1.20 million people and no total count of people speaking Tibetan as second language. Get to know Tibetan speaking population in detail.

Tibetan writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Tibetan writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Tibetan language. Some languages share common writing systems. Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille script is used by Tibetan language. Learn more about . 

Information about Tibetan language

Check out all the information about Tibetan language here. You may find it interesting to learn Tibetan Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Tibetan Speaking Countries, Tibetan speaking continents and Tibetan Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Tibetan countries knowing common Tibetan Greetings will help you in communicating with Tibetan people.