1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Korean Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Kana
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 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?)
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kagawa
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available