Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
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
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Thembu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Africa
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Hlubi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Africa
China
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
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
isiXhosa
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Xhosa
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
xhos1239
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fa
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Xhosa 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 Xhosa and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Xhosa and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Xhosa are spoken in different Xhosa Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Xhosa vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Xhosa dialects include: Gcaleka, Thembu. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Xhosa and Tibetan Speaking population
Xhosa and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Xhosa and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Xhosa and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 % 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 Xhosa and Tibetan on Xhosa vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Xhosa and Tibetan Language Codes
Xhosa and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Xhosa and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.