1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, kerala, Puducherry
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Official language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur Tamil University
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago.
- The first legally recognized Classical Language of India is Tamil.
- 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
1.10 Derived From
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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
Tamil
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
வணக்கம் (Vanakkam)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
நன்றி (Naṉṟi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்? (Nīṅkaḷ eppaṭi irukkiṟīrkaḷ?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
நல்ல இரவு (Good night) / irravu vanakkam (Good night)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
நல்ல மாலை (Nalla mālai)/ மாலை (irravu vanakkam)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
பிற்பகல் வணக்கம் (perpagal vanakkam)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
காலை வணக்கம் (Kaalai Vanakkam)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
தயவு (Tayavu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
மன்னிக்கவும் (Maṉṉikkavum)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
சென்று வருகிறேன் (Sendru Varukiren)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன் (Naan Unnai Kadalikiren)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
என்னை மன்னியுங்கள் (Eṉṉai maṉṉiyuṅkaḷ)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Kongu
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Madurai Tamil
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Tirunelveli Tamil
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli
China
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?
78.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
70.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Tamil people or Tamilans
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Tamil
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Tamil
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
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
7.5 Glottocode
tami1289, oldt1248
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
tami1289
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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