Countries
China, Nepal
Cambodia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, France, United States of America
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3033
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
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)
ជំរាបសួរ (jomreab suor)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
រាត្រីលា
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ល្ងង់អរិយដ្ឋរ
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
លើកលែងរសៀល
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
អរុណប្រចាំឡើង
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
សូម
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
សូរី
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
លាស់ជាស្រី (leah sah srey)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
បងបានស្រលាញ់អូន
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
សូមទាញយក
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,400,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Vietnam
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,200,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
China
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.24 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million13.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
tibétain
khmer central
German Name
Tibetisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Origin
c. 650
14
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Khmer
Language Position
291
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Khmer Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
km
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
khm
ISO 639 2/B
tib
khm
ISO 639 3
bod
khm
ISO 639 6
bod
khm
Glottocode
tibe1272
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
48-ACB
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating