1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Latvia
China, Nepal
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
- 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
Lithuanian 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
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
1.2.1 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
Sveiki
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
2.2 Thank You
Paldies
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
2.3 How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
2.4 Good Night
Ar labunakti
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
2.5 Good Evening
Labvakar
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
2.6 Good Afternoon
Labdien
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
2.7 Good Morning
Labrīt
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
2.8 Please
lūdzu
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
2.9 Sorry
Piedodiet!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
2.10 Bye
Uz redzēšanos
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
2.11 I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
2.12 Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
3.1.1 Where They Speak
Latvia
China, India, Nepal
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
3.2 Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Khams Tibetan
3.5.2 Where They Speak
3.5.3 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
3.6 Dialect 3
High Latvian
Amdo Tibetan
3.6.1 Where They Speak
3.6.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
3.7 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
1.75 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
1.75 million1.20 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
latviešu valoda
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Lettish
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
4.5 Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
tibetan people
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
5.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data Available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology