Countries
Wales
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Wales
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
- Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
- 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
English Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
British Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2935
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
75
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2130
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Helô
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Diolch
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Sut ydych chi?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Nos da
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Noswaith dda
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
P'nawn da
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Bore da
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
os gwelwch yn dda
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Hwyl
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Esgusodwch fi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Argentina
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
38,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gwynedd
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
700,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Powys
China
How Many People Speak
700,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
7.40 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.24 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
7.40 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.70 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cymraeg
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
gallois
tibétain
German Name
Kymrisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Welsh people
tibetan people
Origin
9th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Brythonic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Welsh
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
3129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
cy
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
cym
bod
ISO 639 2/B
wel
tib
ISO 639 3
cym
bod
ISO 639 6
cym
bod
Glottocode
wels1247
tibe1272
Linguasphere
50-ABA
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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