Countries
China, Nepal
Meghalaya
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
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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.
- Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
- There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3523
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3014
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
Kumno
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Khublei
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumno phi long?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
thia sukh
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
babha janmiet
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
babha noph-phai-sngi
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
khublei
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sngewbha
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Map
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
khublei
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ieit ieit
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
map a nga
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bhoi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Nonglung
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
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How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Cherrapunji
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million0.84 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million0.84 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million1.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Ka Ktien
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia
French Name
tibétain
khasi
German Name
Tibetisch
Khasi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈkʰɑsi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Khasi people
Origin
c. 650
1200 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No Early Forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Khasi
Language Position
2940
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kha
ISO 639 2/B
tib
kha
ISO 639 3
bod
kha
ISO 639 6
bod
kha
Glottocode
tibe1272
khas1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
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