Countries
China, Nepal
Vietnam
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Vietnam
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Czech Republic
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.
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
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Chinese Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3537
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
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
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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)
Xin chào
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Cam on
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Bạn khỏe không?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Chúc ngủ ngon
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Chào buổi tối
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Chào buổi trưa
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Chào buổi sáng
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
xin vui lòng
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Xin lỗi
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Tạm biệt
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
tôi yêu bạn
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Xin loi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Vietnamese
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0076,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
North-central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0076,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Where They Speak
China
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0076,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
65
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million91.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %1.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million75.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
tiếng việt (㗂越)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
French Name
tibétain
vietnamien
German Name
Tibetisch
Vietnamesisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
Origin
c. 650
c. 1440
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Vietnamese
Language Position
2914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Vietnamese sign languages
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
vi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
vie
ISO 639 2/B
tib
vie
ISO 639 3
bod
vie
ISO 639 6
bod
vie
Glottocode
tibe1272
viet1252
Linguasphere
No data Available
46-EBA
Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating