Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Ireland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ireland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Ireland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
United Kingdom
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Foras na Gaeilge
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 Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Scottish Gaelic and Welsh Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3518
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3013
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
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Dia dhuit
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Go raibh maith agat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Conas atá tú ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Oíche mhaith
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Dia dhuit ar maidin
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
le do thoil
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Tá brón orm
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Slán
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Is breá liom thú
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Gabh mo leithscéal
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Connacht Irish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Connacht
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00100,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Munster Irish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Munster
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00150,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ulster Irish
Where They Speak
China
Ulster
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1.79 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million0.14 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million1.65 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
French Name
tibétain
irlandais moyen
German Name
Tibetisch
Mittelirisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Irish people
Origin
c. 650
c. 750
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Celtic
Branch
-
Goidelic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
Language Position
2925
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Irish Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ga
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
gle
ISO 639 2/B
tib
gle
ISO 639 3
bod
gle
ISO 639 6
bod
gle
Glottocode
tibe1272
iris1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
50-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional