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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

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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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