1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
330,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
71,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
215.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
196.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available