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Santali and Tibetan


Tibetan and Santali


Countries

Countries
India   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

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

Alphabets in
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
30   
12
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6   
3
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
30   
20

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   
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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།   

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
1   
1
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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   

Code

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   

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

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Santali and Tibetan Speaking population

Santali and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Santali and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Santali and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Santali 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 Santali and Tibetan on Santali vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Santali and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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