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Mossi and Tibetan


Tibetan and Mossi


Countries

Countries
Burkina Faso   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
  • Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
  
  • 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
Dagbani Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26   
8
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
5   
2

How Many Consonants
16   
6
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks   
9
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Kia ora   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Laafi bala   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Laafi beme ?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Ne y yungo   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
ne y zabre   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Kia ora   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
gafare   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
gafare   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Y gafare   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Saremde   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Taolende   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Burkina Faso   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
8   
8
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.60 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.11 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
7.60 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Mosse   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

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

French Name
moré   
tibétain   

German Name
Mossi-Sprache   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Mossi   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
Not available   
c. 650   

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Western Sudanic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Gur (Voltaic)   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Mossi   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
No data Available   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mos   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
mos   
tib   

ISO 639 3
mos   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
moss1236   
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
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Mossi and Tibetan Speaking population

Mossi and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Mossi and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Mossi and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Mossi language is 0.11 % 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 Mossi and Tibetan on Mossi vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Mossi and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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