Countries
China, Nepal
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3544
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3032
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
sannu
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
gode ku
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
yaya dai
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
barka da rana
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
mai kyau safe
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Don Allah
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
yi hakuri
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
sai anjima
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Gaananci
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0050,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Niger
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00150,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Daragaram
Where They Speak
China
Niger
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0050.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million50.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.52 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million35.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million15.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
tibétain
haoussa
German Name
Tibetisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[hàʊsà]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hausa–Fulani people
Origin
c. 650
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Chadic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Hausa
Language Position
2934
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Hausa
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ha
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
hau
ISO 639 2/B
tib
hau
ISO 639 3
bod
hau
ISO 639 6
bod
hau
Glottocode
tibe1272
haus1257
Linguasphere
No data Available
19-HAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional