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Cebuano and Tibetan


Tibetan and Cebuano


Countries

Countries
Philippines  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Philippines  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Philippines  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
  • Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  
  • 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
Hiligaynon Language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Island of Cebu  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
21  
3
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
16  
6
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
3 weeks  
1
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Hoy  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Salamat  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Maayong Gabii  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Maayong Gabii  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Maayong Buntag  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Palihug  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Ikasubo ko  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
Babay  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Boholano  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bohol  
China, India, Nepal  

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

Dialect 2
Southern Kana  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
southern Leyte  
Bhutan, China  

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

Dialect 3
North Kana  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte  
China  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
Not Available  
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.32 %  
38
Not Available  

Native Speakers
21.00 million  
36
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
14.50 million  
19
Not Available  

Native Name
Visayan  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
cebuano  
tibétain  

German Name
Cebuano  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Cebuano people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
16th century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Austronesian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
62  
99+
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data Available  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ceb  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
ceb  
tib  

ISO 639 3
ceb  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
cebu1242  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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

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Cebuano and Tibetan Speaking population

Cebuano and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cebuano and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Cebuano and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cebuano language is 0.32 % 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 Cebuano and Tibetan on Cebuano vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Cebuano and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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