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Tibetan and Vietnamese


Countries

Countries
Vietnam  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Vietnam  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Czech Republic  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
-  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Chinese Language  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Chinese Language  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
37  
19
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12  
9
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Xin chào  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Cam on  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Chào buổi tối  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
xin vui lòng  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Xin lỗi  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
Tạm biệt  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
tôi yêu bạn  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Xin loi  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00  
11
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00  
9
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien  
China  

How Many People Speak
76,000,000.00  
8
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
91.00 million  
16
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.14 %  
17
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
75.00 million  
14
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
16.00 million  
33
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
vietnamien  
tibétain  

German Name
Vietnamesisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
c. 1440  
c. 650  

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
14  
13
29  
27

Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
vi  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
vie  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
vie  
tib  

ISO 639 3
vie  
bod  

ISO 639 6
vie  
bod  

Glottocode
viet1252  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
46-EBA  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating  
-  

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All Vietnamese and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Vietnamese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Vietnamese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Vietnamese are spoken in different Vietnamese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Vietnamese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese, North-central Vietnamese. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Vietnamese and Tibetan Speaking population

Vietnamese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Vietnamese and Tibetan on Vietnamese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Vietnamese and Tibetan Language Codes

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