Countries
China, Nepal
India, Manipur
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
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
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
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.
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3015
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
Khurumjari
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Yamna nungaijare
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Athengba Ahing
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
মানিপুরি
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
দুপুরোয়াক নমস্কাৰ
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Nongale haugatl
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chanbiduna
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Saobiganu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Chatcharage
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Eina nangbu nungsi
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
দুঃখিত
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Loi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burma, Laos
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Pangal
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bangladesh, India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00273,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Meithei proper
Where They Speak
China
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,250,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
66
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million1.50 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)
মৈইতৈইলোন
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
French Name
tibétain
Meithei
German Name
Tibetisch
Meithei
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈmeɪteɪ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Meithei people
Origin
c. 650
1700
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Meithei
Language Position
2938
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Meithei Sign Language
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mni
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mni
ISO 639 3
bod
mni
ISO 639 6
bod
mni
Glottocode
tibe1272
mani1292
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
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