Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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
Pan South African Language Board
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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Xhosa Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3557
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3050
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 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Sawubona
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ngiyabonga
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
unjani
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
okuhle ebusuku
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
okuhle kusihlwa
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
okuhle ntambama
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
okuhle ekuseni
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ngiyacela
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ngiyaxolisa
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ngiyakuthanda wena
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Qwabe
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ndebele
Where They Speak
China
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0028,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million30.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.16 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million12.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
isiZulu
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Isizulu, Zunda
French Name
tibétain
zoulou
German Name
Tibetisch
Zulu-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[zuːlu]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Zulu people
Origin
c. 650
19
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Beatu
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Deep Zulu
Language Position
2987
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Zulu Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
zu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
zul
ISO 639 2/B
tib
zul
ISO 639 3
bod
zul
ISO 639 6
bod
zul
Glottocode
tibe1272
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fg
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
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