Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3531
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
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 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
alo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
multumesc
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ce mai faci?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
noapte Buna
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
buna Ziua
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
bună Dimineața
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Vă Rog
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
scuze
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
La revedere
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Aromanian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
China
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,400.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
610
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.37 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million24.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Română
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
tibétain
roumain; moldave
German Name
Tibetisch
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Romanians
Origin
c. 650
1521
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Romanian
Language Position
2936
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
ron
ISO 639 2/B
tib
rum
ISO 639 3
bod
ron
ISO 639 6
bod
ron
Glottocode
tibe1272
roma1327
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAD-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic