Countries
China, Nepal
Malawi, Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Zambia
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.
- Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
- Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Zulu language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3531
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3018
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
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 weeks32 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Moni
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Zikomo
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Muli bwanji?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Usiku wabwino
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Madzulo abwino
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Masana abwino
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
M'mawa wabwino
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chonde
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pepani
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
anatsanzikana
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndimakukondani
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pepani
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kasungu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kikamtunda
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kimaravi
Where They Speak
China
Malawi, Zambia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,200,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million12.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.17 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Nyanja
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa
French Name
tibétain
chichewa; chewa; nyanja
German Name
Tibetisch
Nyanja-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈtʃewa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Chewa people
Origin
c. 650
15th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Chewa
Language Position
2927
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Chewa Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ny
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
nya
ISO 639 2/B
tib
nya
ISO 639 3
bod
nya
ISO 639 6
bod
nya
Glottocode
tibe1272
nyan1308
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUS-xaa – xag
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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