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Basque and Tibetan


Tibetan and Basque


Countries

Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
France, Spain   
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
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  
  • 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
Spanish   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27   
9
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
Arratsalde on   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

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

Please
Mesedez   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

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

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
France   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
68,000.00   
99+
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Souletin   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
8,700.00   
99+
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Biscayan   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Spain   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
7.20 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

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

Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
basque   
tibétain   

German Name
Baskisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Basque people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
c. 1000   
c. 650   

Language Family
Vasconic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Basque   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
eu   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
eus   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
baq   
tib   

ISO 639 3
eus   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
basq1248   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
40-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   
Not Available   

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

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Basque and Tibetan Speaking population

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Basque and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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