Countries
China, Nepal
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0030,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Olonets
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Olonets
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00154,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Novgorod
Where They Speak
China
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00154,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
613
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million276.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %2.33 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million166.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Русский
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Russki
French Name
tibétain
russe
German Name
Tibetisch
Russisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Russians
Origin
c. 650
1000 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Russian
Language Position
297
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ru
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
rus
ISO 639 2/B
tib
rus
ISO 639 3
bod
rus
ISO 639 6
bod
rus
Glottocode
tibe1272
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ea
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic