Countries
China, Nepal
China
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China
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
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Working Committee of Ethnic Language and Writing of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
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.
- Uyghur language has large quantity of loan words from Persian, Russian and Chinese.
- Uyghur was originally written with the Orkhon Alphabets.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Uzbek Language
Derived From
-
Gokturk Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3536
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3027
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Vertical, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
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)
Ässalamu läykum.
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
rakhmat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Yakshimasiz? / Qandaq ahwalingiz?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Kachlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
تۆنۈگۈن خەير
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Atiganlikingz khayrilik bolsun!
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
birdam
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
kachurung
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Khayr khosh
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
sizni yahshi kOrman
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Kachurung
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Turpan
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0010,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hotan
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
China
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0010,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Lop Nur
Where They Speak
China
China
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0025,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
67
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million10.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.12 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million25.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Уйғур /ئۇيغۇر (ujġgur / uyghur)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Uighuir, Uighur, Uiguir, Uigur, Uygur, Weiwu’er, Wiga
French Name
tibétain
ouïgour
German Name
Tibetisch
Uigurisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ʊjʁʊrˈtʃɛ], [ʊjˈʁʊr tili]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Uyghur
Origin
c. 650
11
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Karakhanid, Chagatai, Eastern Turki
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Uyghur
Language Position
2998
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Uyghur
Scope
-
-
ISO 639 1
bo
ug
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
uig
ISO 639 2/B
tib
uig
ISO 639 3
bod
uig
ISO 639 6
bod
uig
Glottocode
tibe1272
uigh1240
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-