Countries
China, Nepal
  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Abkhazia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Not Available
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Adyghe language, Abaza language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Caucasian languages
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Not available
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Not available
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Bzyb
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Abkhazia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Abzhywa
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Caucasus
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Sadz
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
0.13 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Abxazo, Abkhazian
  
French Name
tibétain
  
abkhaze
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Abchasisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Abkhaz people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
c. 1650
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Northwest Caucasian
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Abkhaz
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ab
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
abk
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
abk
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
abk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
abks
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
abkh1244
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Historical
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative