Countries
Burkina Faso
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Mossi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
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
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.