Countries
India
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
  
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
  
- 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
Munda Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Henda ho
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Adi Johar
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Boge Ninda
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Not Available
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Not Available
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Not Available
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Not Available
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Mahali
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
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
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
6.30 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
santal
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Santali
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
20th century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Santali
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
sat
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
sat
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
sat
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
sant1410
  
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