1 Countries
1.1 Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
South Africa
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Dutch Language
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
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, 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
hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Dankie
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
goeie nag
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Goeienaand
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
goeie more
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
asseblief
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
jammer
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Ek het jou lief
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Verskoon my
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Amdo Tibetan
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?
19.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.10 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Afrikaans
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Afrikaners
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
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
52-ACB-ba
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