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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
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200   
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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