Countries
China, Nepal
Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Andra Pradesh, India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Karnataka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh
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.
- Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world that has every single word that ends with a vowel sound. Telugu language is called "Italian of the East".
- Telugu is one of the oldest language in India which is 2,400 years old.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tamil
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3560
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
519
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3041
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Telugu Script
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
హలో (Halō)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
బై (Bai)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Waddar
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00170,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Chenchu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0026,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Manna-Dora
Where They Speak
China
Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0030,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
638
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million80.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.15 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million75.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
తెలుగు (telugu)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan
French Name
tibétain
télougou
German Name
Tibetisch
Telugu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈteluɡu]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Telugu people
Origin
c. 650
c. 575
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Early Telugu epigraphy
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Telugu
Language Position
2915
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Telugu
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
te
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
tel
ISO 639 2/B
tib
tel
ISO 639 3
bod
tel
ISO 639 6
bod
tel
Glottocode
tibe1272
telu1262
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
-