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Tibetan and German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
German-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
9  
1
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
9
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

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
820,000.00  
26
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Texas German  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Texas  
China  

How Many People Speak
6,000.00  
35
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
28  
23
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million  
8
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %  
12
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  

History

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
9  
9
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Signed German  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

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  

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All German and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all German and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of German and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Tibetan Speaking population

German and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of German and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak German and Tibetan on German vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Tibetan Language Codes

German and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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