1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
zoo hmo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
zoo tav su
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
thov
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
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ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Kuv hlub koj
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
zam txim rau kuv
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Hmong Njua
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
310,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
4.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
3.70 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Mong
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
Hmong people
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Hmong–Mien Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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