1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
tibétain
5.3.5 German Name
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 650
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1
120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
bo
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
bod
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
tib
7.3 ISO 639 3
bod
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available