1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Habari
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Asante
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Usiku mwema
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
nzuri Alasiri
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
tafadhali
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
nakupenda
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Samahani
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Zanzibar island
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Dar es Salaam
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Not Available
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available