Countries
Benin, Nigeria
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
- 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
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2935
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
125
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1730
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
30 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
e dupe
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ka a ale
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
e kaaro
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Jowo
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
binu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ede
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
800,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China
How Many People Speak
10,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
30.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
28.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
30.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Yorùbá
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
yoruba
tibétain
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[jòɾùbá]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Yoruba people
tibetan people
Origin
4 BC
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Kwa
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
4929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
yo
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yor
bod
ISO 639 2/B
yor
tib
ISO 639 3
yor
bod
ISO 639 6
yor
bod
Glottocode
yoru1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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