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Tibetan Language



Countries

Countries
China, Nepal

Total No. Of Countries
2 13

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
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
35 17

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
30 20

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
2 1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks 6

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 60

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00 60

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan

Where They Speak
China

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00 50

Total No. Of Dialects
6 6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million 85

Speaking Population
0.05 % 59

Native Speakers
1.20 million 80

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million 47

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang

French Name
tibétain

German Name
Tibetisch

Pronunciation
[tibetan]

Ethnicity
tibetan people

History

Origin
c. 650

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan

Language Position
29 27

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language

Scope
-

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
bod

Glottocode
tibe1272

Linguasphere
No data Available

Types of Language

Language Type
-

Language Linguistic Typology
-

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Origin of Tibetan language

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