Countries
China, Nepal
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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.
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3536
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3028
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 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
kedụ
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
dalụ
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Biko
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndo
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Kachifo
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Enuani
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0024.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
620
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.09 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
igbo
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ibo
French Name
tibétain
igbo
German Name
Tibetisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Igbo people
Origin
c. 650
30th Century BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2957
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ibo
ISO 639 3
bod
ibo
ISO 639 6
bod
ibo
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative