Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Lithuania
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Lithuania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Poland
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Commission of the Lithuanian 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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Latvian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
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
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)
Sveiki
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ačiū
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Labanakt
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Laba diena
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Labas rytas
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Prašom
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
atsiprašau
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Ate
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Samogitian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.003,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Curonian
Where They Speak
China
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million3.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million3.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
tibétain
lituanien
German Name
Tibetisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˌlɪθuˈeɪniən]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Lithuanians
Origin
c. 650
c. 1503
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
Baltic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Lithuanian
Language Position
2944
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
lt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
lit
ISO 639 2/B
tib
lit
ISO 639 3
bod
lit
ISO 639 6
bod
lit
Glottocode
tibe1272
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
54-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic