Countries
European Union, Ireland
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Ireland
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Ireland
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
United Kingdom
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Foras na Gaeilge
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
  
- 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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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Dia dhuit
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Go raibh maith agat
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Conas atá tú ?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Oíche mhaith
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Dia dhuit ar maidin
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
le do thoil
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Tá brón orm
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Slán
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Is breá liom thú
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithscéal
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Connacht Irish
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Connacht
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Munster Irish
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Munster
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Ulster Irish
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Ulster
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.79 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.14 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.65 million
  
35
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Native Name
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
irlandais moyen
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Mittelirisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
  
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Ethnicity
Irish people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 750
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Celtic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Goidelic
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Irish Sign Language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ga
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
gle
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
gle
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
gle
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
iris1253
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
50-AAA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
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