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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
-
Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3552
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
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 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
-
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
-
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00140,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
60
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million14.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million14.10 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million-
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
tibétain
sanskrit
German Name
Tibetisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
c. 650
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Sanskrit
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
-
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
san
ISO 639 2/B
tib
san
ISO 639 3
bod
san
ISO 639 6
bod
san
Glottocode
tibe1272
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic