Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
  
- 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
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kazakh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
bye
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
11.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
11.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
kazakh
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Kasachisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kazahks
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
17th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Kazakh
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
kk
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kaz
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
kaz
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
kaz
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kaza1248
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available