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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
Spanish
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
33
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
South Africa
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
1.8 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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
Tamil
35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
Irish
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
Thai
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Hebrew
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
Hmong
30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
21
Rank: 11 (Overall)
German
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2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
Armenian
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
7
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Bengali
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
Chinese
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
6 weeks
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Cebuano
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Good Morning
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Please
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Sorry
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Bye
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
225,000,000.00
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Macedonian
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4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hiberno-English
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
4,500,000.00
Rank: 15 (Overall)
Dzongkha
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4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Welsh English
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
United Kingdom
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Swedish
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
2,500,000.00
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Romanian
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
English
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
188
Rank: 34 (Overall)
Sanskrit
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
English
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
1,200.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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5.2 Speaking Population
Croatian
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
5.43 %
Rank: 4 (Overall)
Xhosa
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5.3 Native Speakers
Chinese
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
400.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
English
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
400.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Finnish
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5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
English
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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5.3.4 French Name
tibétain
anglais
5.3.5 German Name
Tibetisch
Englisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 650
5th Century AD
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
Georgian
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed English
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
bo
en
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
bod
eng
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
tib
eng
7.3 ISO 639 3
bod
eng
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
engs
7.5 Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1293
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ABA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Tibetan vs English Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Tibetan vs English speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Tibetan or English language.

  • Tibetan is spoken as a national language in: Nepal, Tibet.
  • English is spoken as a national language in: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America.

You will also get to know the continents where Tibetan and English speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Tibetan language is not available and position of English language is 3. Find all the information about these languages on Tibetan and English.

Tibetan and English Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs English language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and English language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of English language states that this language originated in 5th Century AD. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and English Language History.

Tibetan and English Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and English greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and English language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or English word for "Thank You" is Thank you. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and English Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs English Difficulty

The Tibetan vs English difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and English Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and English are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and English, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn English time required is 6 weeks.

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