Countries
China, Nepal
Burkina Faso
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
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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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Dagbani Language
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3016
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
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 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kia ora
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Laafi bala
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Kia ora
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Ne y yibeogo
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
gafare
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
gafare
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Saremde
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Taolende
Where They Speak
China
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.11 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million7.60 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)
Mosse
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
French Name
tibétain
moré
German Name
Tibetisch
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[mɔ̀ːsì]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Mossi
Origin
c. 650
11th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic
Branch
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Gur (Voltaic)
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Mossi
Language Position
2937
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Mossi Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mos
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mos
ISO 639 3
bod
mos
ISO 639 6
bod
mos
Glottocode
tibe1272
moss1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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