Countries
China, Nepal
  
South Africa
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
South Africa
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Namibia, South Africa
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
  
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.
  
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Dutch Language
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Dankie
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Hoe gaan dit
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
goeie nag
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Goeienaand
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Goeie middag
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
goeie more
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
asseblief
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
jammer
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Ek het jou lief
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Verskoon my
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Kaapse Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Oranjeriverafrikaans
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Baster Afrikaans
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Namibia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
19.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
7.10 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
10.30 million
  
22
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Afrikaans
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Cape Dutch
  
French Name
tibétain
  
afrikaans
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Afrikaans
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Afrikaners
  
Origin
c. 650
  
17th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Standard Afrikaans
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
af
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
afr
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
afr
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
afr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
afrs
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
afri1274
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
52-ACB-ba
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic
  
Tibetan and Afrikaans Speaking population
Tibetan and Afrikaans speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Afrikaans languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Afrikaans Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Afrikaans language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Afrikaans on Tibetan vs Afrikaans where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Afrikaans Language Codes
Tibetan and Afrikaans language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Afrikaans Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.