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Bengali and Tibetan


Tibetan and Bengali


Countries

Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
51  
30
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
11  
8
5  
2

How Many Consonants
40  
29
30  
20

Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Chakma  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
330,000.00  
36
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Hajong  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
71,000.00  
36
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

Total No. Of Dialects
25  
21
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
215.00 million  
9
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
3.11 %  
8
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  

History

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
4  
4
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

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  

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

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Bengali and Tibetan Speaking population

Bengali and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Bengali and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Bengali and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Bengali language is 3.11 % 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 Bengali and Tibetan on Bengali vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Bengali and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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