Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Roman Empire
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
- 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
Armenian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
αντίο (antío)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Greece
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Griko
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Italy
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Mariupol
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Ukraine
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
13.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
13.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
ελληνικά
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Neugriechisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1500 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Hellenic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Modern Greek
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
el
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ell
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
gre
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
ell
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
ells
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
gree1276
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
56-AAA-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available