Countries
China, Nepal
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Armenian
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3524
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3017
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, 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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Greece
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,800.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Griko
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0050,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Mariupol
Where They Speak
China
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
625
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million13.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.18 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million13.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
tibétain
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Tibetisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Greeks or Hellenes
Origin
c. 650
1500 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Hellenic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Greek
Language Position
2974
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
el
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ell
ISO 639 2/B
tib
gre
ISO 639 3
bod
ell
ISO 639 6
bod
ells
Glottocode
tibe1272
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data Available
56-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic