1 Countries
1.1 Countries
East Asia, European Union, South America
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
East Asia, European Union
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, South America
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Akademio de Esperanto
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international 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.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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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
Not Available
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
Halo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Dankon
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Kiel vi sanas?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Bonan nokton
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Bonan vesperon
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Bonan posttagmezon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Bonan matenon
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Mi petas
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Mi bedaŭras!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Ĝis poste
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Mi amas vin
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Pardonu!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Not present
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not present
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not present
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
2.20 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
0.20 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Esperanto
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[espeˈranto]
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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
Proto-Esperanto
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Esperanto
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signuno
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
Not Available
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
51-AAB-da
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Constructed
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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