Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
South Africa
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Lesotho, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
- 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
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
5335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4330
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Molo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ndiyabulela
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Unjani
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ulale kakuhle
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Ubusuku obuhle
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Uben' emva kwemini entle
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Molo
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Ndicela
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ndicela uxolo
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ndiyakuthanda
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Gcaleka
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Africa
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Thembu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
19,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hlubi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Africa
China
How Many People Speak
19.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
96
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
20.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.11 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.20 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
isiXhosa
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
xhosa
tibétain
German Name
Xhosa-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈkǁʰɔ̀ːsa]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
tibetan people
Origin
16th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Bantu
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Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2129
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
xh
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
xho
bod
ISO 639 2/B
xho
tib
ISO 639 3
xho
bod
ISO 639 6
xho
bod
Glottocode
xhos1239
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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