1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
South Africa
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Thank you
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
How are you?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
I love you
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
American English
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Hiberno-English
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Welsh English
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
400.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
English
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed English
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
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