Countries
China, Nepal
India
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
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)
Henda ho
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
संध्यायान
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Boge Setak’
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
দয়া করে
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
দুঃখিত
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Hariau
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Mahali
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
-
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
-
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
61
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million6.30 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.02 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million6.30 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
tibétain
santal
German Name
Tibetisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
c. 650
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Santali
Language Position
2941
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
sat
ISO 639 2/B
tib
sat
ISO 639 3
bod
sat
ISO 639 6
bod
sat
Glottocode
tibe1272
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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