Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
China, Taiwan
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
- 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
请 (Qǐng)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Mandarin
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00
  
1
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Wu
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00
  
1
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Yue
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00
  
2
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million
  
2
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
873.00 million
  
1
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
178.00 million
  
3
Not Available
  
Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Not Available
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
chinois
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Chinesisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Han
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1250 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
zh
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
zho
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
chi
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
zho
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
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Glottocode
sini1245
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
79-AAA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
  
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