Countries
Myanmar
China, Nepal
National Language
Myanmar
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Bangladesh, Burma
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Mon
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Myanmar Language Commission
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as 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
Thai Language
Not Available
Derived From
Pali Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tangut
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Arakanese
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Tavoyan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Myanmar
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Intha
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Burma
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
birman
tibétain
German Name
Birmanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Bamar people
tibetan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Burmese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Burmese sign language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
sout3159
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available
Burmese and Tibetan Speaking population
Burmese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Burmese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Burmese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Burmese language is 0.50 % 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 Burmese and Tibetan on Burmese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Burmese and Tibetan Language Codes
Burmese and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Burmese and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.