Countries
China, Nepal
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3524
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Habari
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Asante
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
tafadhali
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pole
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Samahani
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0075,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0075,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kimgao
Where They Speak
China
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0075,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million150.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.42 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million15.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million75.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kiswahili
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
tibétain
swahili
German Name
Tibetisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[swaˈhili]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
c. 650
6th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Swahili
Language Position
2921
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Swahili Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
sw
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
swa
ISO 639 2/B
tib
swa
ISO 639 3
bod
swa
ISO 639 6
bod
swa
Glottocode
tibe1272
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUS-m
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-