Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
India
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
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
  
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
Similar To
Assamese and Oriya
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bengali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Chakma
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Hajong
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Rarhi
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
215.00 million
  
9
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
196.00 million
  
7
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
19.00 million
  
16
Not Available
  
Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
bengali
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Bengali
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1000–1200 CE
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Bengali
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
bn
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ben
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
ben
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
ben
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
beng1280
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available