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Tibetan and Abkhaz


Abkhaz and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
3   
12

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

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
62   
36

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
2   
1

How Many Consonants
30   
20
60   
36

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Cyrillic   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Right-To-Left, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
Not Available   

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
27 weeks   
8

Greetings

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   

Dialects

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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   

Code

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   

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All Tibetan and Abkhaz Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Abkhaz dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Abkhaz language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Abkhaz Dialects are spoken in different Abkhaz speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Abkhaz Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Abkhaz dialects include: Bzyb , Abzhywa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Abkhaz Speaking population

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Tibetan and Abkhaz Language Codes

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