Countries
China, Nepal
China, Mongolia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Mongolia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Turkish Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3535
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
513
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
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)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Хэрэв (Kherev)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Khalkha Mongolian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ordos Mongolian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00123,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khorchin Mongolian
Where They Speak
China
Mongolia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.005,700,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million5.70 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Khalkha, Buryat, Oirat
French Name
tibétain
mongol
German Name
Tibetisch
Mongolisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Mongols
Origin
c. 650
1224-1225
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Mongolian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
Language Position
2926
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
mn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mon
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mon
ISO 639 3
bod
mon
ISO 639 6
bod
mon
Glottocode
tibe1272
mong1331
Linguasphere
No data Available
part of 44-BAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
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