Countries
Armenian Highland
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  
- 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
Greek
  
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Armenian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Not Applicable
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Not Applicable
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
6.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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Native Speakers
6.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
arménien
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Armenisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Armenians
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
late 5th century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
hy
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hye
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
arm
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
hye
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arme1241
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
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