Countries
Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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National Language
Abkhazia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
- 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
Adyghe language, Abaza language
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Derived From
Caucasian languages
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
25
0
32
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How Many Consonants
6030
9
60
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Scripts
Cyrillic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
-2
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
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thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
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ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
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ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
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དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialects
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
-1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
-1,400,000.00
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Sadz
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Turkey
China
How Many People Speak
-1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
--
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
0.13 million1.20 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
--
0.01
400
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
abkhaze
tibétain
German Name
Abchasisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
-
-
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
tibetan people
History
Origin
c. 1650
c. 650
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
--
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
Code
ISO 639 1
ab
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
bod
ISO 639 2/B
abk
tib
ISO 639 3
abk
bod
ISO 639 6
abks
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Glottocode
abkh1244
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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