Countries
India, Nepal
China, Nepal
National Language
Nepal
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese 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
Hindi
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
कृपया
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Doteli
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nepal
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
népalais
tibétain
German Name
Nepali
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Nepali
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nepa1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available
All Nepali 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 Nepali and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Nepali and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Nepali are spoken in different Nepali Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Nepali vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Nepali dialects include: Doteli, Bajhangi. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Nepali and Tibetan Speaking population
Nepali and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Nepali and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Nepali and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 % 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 Nepali and Tibetan on Nepali vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Nepali and Tibetan Language Codes
Nepali and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Nepali and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.