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Bodo and Tibetan


Tibetan and Bodo


Countries

Countries
Assam, India   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Assam, India   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not Available   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not Available   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
  
  • 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
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language   
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
45   
25
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
20   
17
5   
2

How Many Consonants
25   
15
30   
20

Scripts
Devanagari   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Not Available   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Not Available   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

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

Good Night
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Not Available   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
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ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
अननानै (Onnanwi)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Not Available   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Not Available   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Assam, India, Nepal   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.60 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
बड़ो (boṛo)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
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tibétain   

German Name
Not Available   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[bɔɽo]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1913   
c. 650   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Not Available   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Not Available   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
Not Available   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
Not Available   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
Not Available   
tib   

ISO 639 3
brx   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
bodo1269   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
Not Available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Bodo 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 Bodo and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Bodo and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Bodo are spoken in different Bodo Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Bodo vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Bodo dialects include: (Sønabari) Western Boro dialect, (Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Bodo and Tibetan Speaking population

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Bodo and Tibetan Language Codes

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