Native Tibetan Speakers
You will get to know second language speakers of Tibetan language as well as native Tibetan Speakers under how many people speak Tibetan language. There is an estimate that there are almost 1.20 million native speakers of Tibetan language. Some languages have relatively large populations of native speakers and on other hand some languages have small population of native speakers. There is no estimate available of people speaking Tibetan as second language. The number of second language speakers mentioned in how many people speak Tibetan are those whose native language is minority language of country in which they live. They learn the second language because it is official language of the country where they reside.
Native name of Tibetan
How many people speak Tibetan serves you with native name of Tibetan language. The native name of Tibetan is བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay). Native names are the local names for the languages. The native names of the languages are used by the native speakers of that language. The alternative names of Tibetan are Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang. The German and French names for Tibetan language is as follows:
- French Name for Tibetan: tibétain.
- German Name for Tibetan: Tibetisch.
In some applications, instead of using language names they use language codes, check out the language code of Tibetan on
Tibetan Language Codes.