1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Caucasian languages
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Cyrillic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Not Available
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Not Available
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Not available
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Not available
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Abkhazia
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
0.13 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.13 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available