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Shona and Tibetan


Tibetan and Shona


Countries

Countries
Zimbabwe   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Africa   
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
  • Shona language is tonal language.
  • The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
  
  • 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
Kalanga and Nambya Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
Not Available   
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
46   
34
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Mhoro   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Waita zvako   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Urare zvakanaka   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Manheru   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Masikati   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

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

Please
Ndinokumbirawo   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Ndineurombo   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
bye   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

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

Excuse Me
Pamusoro   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Hwesa   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Zimbabwe   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
Karanga   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Zezuru   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
4   
4
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
25.00 million   
40
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
8.30 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Not Available   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
shona   
tibétain   

German Name
Schona-Sprache   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
20th century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Benue-Congo   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Bantu   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Not Available   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Not Available   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
107   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
sn   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
sna   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
sna   
tib   

ISO 639 3
sna   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
core1255   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
99-AUT-a   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Shona and Tibetan Speaking population

Shona and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Shona and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Shona and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 % 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 Shona and Tibetan on Shona vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Shona and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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