Countries
Georgia
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  
- 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
Anatolian Languages
  
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Alphabets in
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Kartlian
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Kartli
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Pshavian
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Pshavi
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
4.30 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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Native Speakers
4.30 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
ქართული ენა
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
géorgien
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Georgisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Georgians
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
5th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Southern
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
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ISO 639 1
ka
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kat
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
geo
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
kat
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1302
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
  
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