Countries
China, Nepal
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
Total No. Of Countries
232
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
France
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Italian Language
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
bonjour
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Merci
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Comment allez-vous?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
bonne Nuit
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
bonsoir
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
bon Après-Midi
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bonjour
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
S'il vous plaît
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
désolé
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
au revoir
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Je t'aime
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Excuse Moi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Quebec French
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
African French
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Africa
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00274,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Swiss French
Where They Speak
China
Northeast France, Switzerland
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
625
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million163.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million76.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million87.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
français
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Français
French Name
tibétain
français
German Name
Tibetisch
Französisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
French people
Origin
c. 650
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard French
Language Position
2913
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
fr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
fra
ISO 639 2/B
tib
fre
ISO 639 3
bod
fra
ISO 639 6
bod
fras
Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1290
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-i
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic