Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Germany
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Council for German Orthography
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
Similar To
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Albanian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hallo
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Danke
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
gute Nacht
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
guten Abend
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
guten Tag
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
guten Morgen
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
bitte
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Verzeihung
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Tschüs
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Ich liebe dich
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Entschuldigung
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Swiss German
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Switzerland
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00
  
18
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Swabian German
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Germany
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Texas German
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Texas
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
229.00 million
  
8
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
101.00 million
  
10
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
128.00 million
  
5
Not Available
  
Native Name
Deutsch
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
allemand
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Deutsch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Germans
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
6th Century AD
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Germanic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Western
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed German
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
de
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
deu
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
ger
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
deu
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
deus
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available