Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
China, Nepal
National Language
Spain
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
- 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
French Language
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Derived From
Latin
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hola
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Gracias
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Buenas Noches
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Buenos Días
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Por Favor
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
triste
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
adiós
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Te Quiero
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Mexico
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Cuba
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Español
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
espagnol; castillan
tibétain
German Name
Spanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
stan1288
tibe1272
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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