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Sanskrit and Tibetan


Tibetan and Sanskrit


Countries

Countries
India  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Old German Language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Prakrit Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
52  
31
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
16  
13
5  
2

How Many Consonants
36  
26
30  
20

Scripts
Devanagari  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks  
5
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
कृपया (kripayā)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Not present  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
China, India, Nepal  

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

Dialect 2
Not present  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Bhutan, China  

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

Dialect 3
Not present  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
China  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
0  
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
14.10 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

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

French Name
sanskrit  
tibétain  

German Name
Sanskrit  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
2000 B.C.  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Indic  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Sanskrit  
Standard Tibetan  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
sa  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
san  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
san  
tib  

ISO 639 3
san  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sans1269  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Ancient  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Not Available  

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

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Sanskrit and Tibetan Speaking population

Sanskrit and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Sanskrit and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Sanskrit and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is Not Available 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 Sanskrit and Tibetan on Sanskrit vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Sanskrit and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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