Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
- 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
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ciao
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
grazie
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Per Favore
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
scusate
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
Not Available
  
Native Name
Italiano
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
italien
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
960 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available