Countries
Fiji, India
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
India
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
- 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
Urdu
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Khariboli
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00
  
2
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Marwari
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00
  
3
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Bundeli
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00
  
4
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million
  
5
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
260.00 million
  
4
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million
  
6
Not Available
  
Native Name
हिन्दी
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
hindi
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Hindi
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
7th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
hi
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hin
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
hin
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
hin
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
hins
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
hind1269
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available