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
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
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
  
Origin
210 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 1
es
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available