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Amharic and Tibetan


Tibetan and Amharic


Countries

Countries
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Ethiopia   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Africa   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
  • Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  
  • 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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Amharic-1.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
33   
15
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7   
4
5   
2

How Many Consonants
31   
21
30   
20

Scripts
Ethiopic   
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
Selam   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
amesege'nallo'   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Dehina newot?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

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

Good Evening
melkam meshe't   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
i'ndemin walu   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
i'ndemin adäru   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
i'bakwon   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
aznallehu   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

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

Excuse Me
yiqirta   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gondar   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Gondar   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Gojjami   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ethiopia   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Showa   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ethiopia   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
5   
5
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.37 %   
35
Not Available   

Native Speakers
25.00 million   
32
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
10.00 million   
23
Not Available   

Native Name
Not Available   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
amharique   
tibétain   

German Name
Amharisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[amarɨɲɲa]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Amharas   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
13th century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Semitic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Ethiopic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Ge'ez   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Amharic   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
55   
40
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Amharic   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
am   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
amh   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
amh   
tib   

ISO 639 3
amh   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
amha1245   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
12-ACB-a   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional   
Not Available   

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All Amharic 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 Amharic and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Amharic and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Amharic are spoken in different Amharic Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Amharic vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Amharic dialects include: Gondar, Gojjami. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Amharic and Tibetan Speaking population

Amharic and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Amharic and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Amharic and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Amharic language is 0.37 % 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 Amharic and Tibetan on Amharic vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Amharic and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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