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Tibetan and Japanese


Countries

Countries
Japan   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Japan   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific   
Asia   

Minority Language
Palau   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  
  • 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
Korean Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
99   
40
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
14   
4
30   
20

Scripts
Kana   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5   
4
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks   
13
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Sanuki   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Kagawa   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00   
28
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Hakata   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Fukuoka   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Kansai   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
kansai   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
31   
25
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
128.00 million   
14
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.90 %   
10
Not Available   

Native Speakers
128.00 million   
9
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
日本語   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
japonais   
tibétain   

German Name
Japanisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1185   
c. 650   

Language Family
Japonic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Japanese   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
8   
8
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Japanese   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ja   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
jpn   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
jpn   
tib   

ISO 639 3
jpn   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
nucl1643   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
45-CAA-a   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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

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Japanese and Tibetan Speaking population

Japanese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % 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 Japanese and Tibetan on Japanese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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