Countries
India
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
India
  
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
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
- 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
Bengali and Assamese
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Not Available
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Baleswari
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Ganjami
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Kosli
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
33.00 million
  
34
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
33.00 million
  
28
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
oriya
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Oriya-Sprache
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Odias
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
3 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Odia
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
or
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ori
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
ori
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
ori
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
macr1269
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available