Countries
Israel
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Israel
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Israel
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Poland
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Hebrew Language
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew 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
Arabic and Aramaic languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Aramaic Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
How Many Vowels
0
  
Scripts
Hebrew
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
שלום (Shalom)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
תודה (Toda)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
בבקשה (bevekshah)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
סליחה! (Slicha)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
להתראות (Lehitraot)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
בבקשה!
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Ashkenazi Hebrew
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Israel
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Israel
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
9.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.40 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.60 million
  
27
Not Available
  
Native Name
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Israeli, Ivrit
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
hébreu
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Hebräisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1000 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Canaanitic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Modern Hebrew
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
he
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
heb
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
heb
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
heb
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hebr1246
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
12-AAB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available