Countries
Japan
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Kana
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
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
How Many People Speak?
128.00 million
  
14
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
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