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Akan and Tibetan


Tibetan and Akan


Countries

Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Ghana   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Africa   
Asia   

Minority Language
Benin, United States of America   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
  • Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
  • 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Akan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
21   
3
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
5   
2

How Many Consonants
16   
6
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
ete-sen   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
meda ase   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
maadwo   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
maadwo   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
maaha   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
maakye   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
wae   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Kafra   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
bye   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Me doכ wo   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Asante   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ghana   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00   
13
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Akuapem   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ghana   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00   
10
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Fante   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ghana   
China   

How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00   
15
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
11.00 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.17 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
11.00 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Akan   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
akan   
tibétain   

German Name
Akan-Sprache   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Akan people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
15   
c. 650   

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Akan   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
104   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ak   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
aka   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
aka   
tib   

ISO 639 3
aka   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
akan1251   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Akan and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Akan and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Akan and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Akan are spoken in different Akan Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Akan vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Akan dialects include: Asante, Akuapem. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Akan and Tibetan Speaking population

Akan and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Akan and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Akan and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Akan and Tibetan on Akan vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Akan and Tibetan Language Codes

Akan and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Akan and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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