Countries
China, Nepal
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Poland
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
-
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3522
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
50
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3022
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Israel
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
China
Israel
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
67
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million9.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
tibétain
hébreu
German Name
Tibetisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
c. 650
1000 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
-
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
heb
ISO 639 2/B
tib
heb
ISO 639 3
bod
heb
ISO 639 6
bod
heb
Glottocode
tibe1272
hebr1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic