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Assamese and Tibetan


Tibetan and Assamese


Countries

Countries
India   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Bangladesh, India   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
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  • 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
Bengali and Oriya   
Not Available   

Derived From
Sanskrit Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
52   
31
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
11   
8
5   
2

How Many Consonants
41   
30
30   
20

Scripts
Bengali   
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
Not Available   
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
nomoskaar   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

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

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

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

Good Evening
subha gadhuli   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
subha abeli   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

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

Please
anugroha kori   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
moi ḍukkhita   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Kamrupi   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Western Assam   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00   
16
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Goalpariya   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Western Assam   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Bhakatiya   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Assam   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.24 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
15.00 million   
40
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
assamais   
tibétain   

German Name
Assamesisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Assamese people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
7th century A.D   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Indic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Kamarupa   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Assamese   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
65   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
as   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
asm   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
asm   
tib   

ISO 639 3
asm   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
assa1263   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
59-AAF-w   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Assamese and Tibetan Speaking population

Assamese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Assamese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Assamese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 % 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 Assamese and Tibetan on Assamese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Assamese and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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