1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Albanian Languages
Not Available
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
hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Danke
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
gute Nacht
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
guten Abend
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
guten Tag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
guten Morgen
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
bitte
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Verzeihung
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Tschüs
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Ich liebe dich
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Swiss German
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Switzerland
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Swabian German
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
820,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Texas German
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
6,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
229.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
101.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
128.00 millionNA
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Deutsch
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
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
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed German
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
high1287, uppe1397
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Not Available