Countries
China, Nepal
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
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.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Greek
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3538
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3032
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
212
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
62
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million6.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.22 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
tibétain
arménien
German Name
Tibetisch
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Armenians
Origin
c. 650
late 5th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
2914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Armenian
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
hye
ISO 639 2/B
tib
arm
ISO 639 3
bod
hye
ISO 639 6
bod
hye
Glottocode
tibe1272
arme1241
Linguasphere
No data Available
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic