1 Countries
1.1 Countries
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
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Prakrit Language
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
Devanagari
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
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
कृपया (kripayā)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Not present
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
14.10 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
14.10 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology