Igbo and Tibetan
Countries
Nigeria
China, Nepal
National Language
Nigeria
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
- 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
kedụ
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
dalụ
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Biko
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ndo
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
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ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Enuani
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
igbo
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
igbo
tibétain
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Igbo people
tibetan people
Origin
30th Century BC
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nucl1417
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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All Igbo and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Igbo and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Igbo and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Igbo are spoken in different Igbo Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Igbo vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Igbo dialects include: Enuani, Ngwa. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Igbo and Tibetan Speaking population
Igbo and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Igbo and Tibetan on Igbo vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Igbo and Tibetan Language Codes
Igbo and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Igbo and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.