Countries
China, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
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
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.
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Bengali and Assamese
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3542
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3031
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ଦୟାକରି
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Baleswari
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0033,800,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ganjami
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0033,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kosli
Where They Speak
China
India
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00520,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million33.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.50 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million33.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million35.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
French Name
tibétain
oriya
German Name
Tibetisch
Oriya-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈoɽia]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Odias
Origin
c. 650
3 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Odia
Language Position
2932
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
or
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ori
ISO 639 2/B
tib
ori
ISO 639 3
bod
ori
ISO 639 6
bod
ori
Glottocode
tibe1272
macr1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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