Countries
China, Nepal
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
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.
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tagalog Language
Derived From
-
Spanish Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3528
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3023
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
Kumusta
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Salamat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumusta
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
magandang gabi
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Magandang gabi
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Magandang hapon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Magandang umaga
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mangyaring
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pinagsisisihan
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Paalam
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Mahal kita
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
patawarin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bikol
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00100,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hiligaynon
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.008,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Waray
Where They Speak
China
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002,600,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million90.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million45.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
filipino
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Pilipino
French Name
tibétain
filipino; pilipino
German Name
Tibetisch
Pilipino
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Filipino people
Origin
c. 650
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Filipino
Language Position
2934
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Filipino Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No Data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
fil
ISO 639 2/B
tib
fil
ISO 639 3
bod
fil
ISO 639 6
bod
fil
Glottocode
tibe1272
fili1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No Data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-