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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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