Countries
China, Nepal
Assam, India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Assam, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
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Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
- Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3545
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3025
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks34 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
नमस्कार
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवाद
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Nungni khabora ma?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
बोडो
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
अन्धानि बार
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
अननानै (Onnanwi)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
दु:खित
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Lwrbw
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
दु:खित
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect
Where They Speak
China
Assam, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million0.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million0.60 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
बड़ो (boṛo)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci
French Name
tibétain
bodo
German Name
Tibetisch
Bodo
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[bɔɽo]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)
Origin
c. 650
1913
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
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Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
-
Language Position
2930
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Bodo
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
br
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
brx
ISO 639 2/B
tib
brx
ISO 639 3
bod
brx
ISO 639 6
bod
brx
Glottocode
tibe1272
bodo1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAB
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
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