Countries
Countries
China, Nepal
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Not Available
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Not Available
Caucasian languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3562
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
52
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3060
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
2NA
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Not Available
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Not Available
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Not available
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Not available
Dialects
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bzyb
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Sadz
Where They Speak
China
Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million0.13 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
tibétain
abkhaze
German Name
Tibetisch
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Abkhaz people
History
Origin
c. 650
c. 1650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Abkhaz
Language Position
NANA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
bo
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
abk
ISO 639 2/B
tib
abk
ISO 639 3
bod
abk
ISO 639 6
Not Available
abks
Glottocode
tibe1272
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative