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Ilocano and Tibetan


Tibetan and Ilocano


Countries

Countries
Philippines   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Philippines   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
  • Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
  
  • 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
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Ilocano-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
32   
14
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
20   
10
30   
20

Scripts
Ilokano Braille, Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Kablaaw   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Agyamanak   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Kumusta?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Naimbag a rabii   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Naimbag a sardam   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Naimbag a malem   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Naimbag a bigat   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Not available   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Agpakawanak   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Pakada   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Ayayatenka   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Maawan-dayawen   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Balangao   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Philippines   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
21,000.00   
99+
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Bontoc   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Philippines   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
41,000.00   
39
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Not present   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Not present   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
2   
2
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
9.10 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.14 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
9.10 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
ilokano   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
ilocano   
tibétain   

German Name
Ilokano-Sprache   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Ilocano people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
18th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Austronesian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Modern Ilocano   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
94   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ilo   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
ilo   
tib   

ISO 639 3
ilo   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
ilok1237   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
31-CBA-a   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Ilocano 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 Ilocano and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Ilocano and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Ilocano are spoken in different Ilocano Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Ilocano vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Ilocano dialects include: Balangao, Bontoc. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Ilocano and Tibetan Speaking population

Ilocano and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Ilocano and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Ilocano and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Ilocano language is 0.14 % 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 Ilocano and Tibetan on Ilocano vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Ilocano and Tibetan Language Codes

Ilocano and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Ilocano and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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