Countries
China, Nepal
Ghana, Ivory coast
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ghana
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Akan Orthography 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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ete-sen
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
meda ase
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
maadwo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
maadwo
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
maaha
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
maakye
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
wae
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Kafra
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Asante
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Ghana
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Ghana
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Fante
Where They Speak
China
Ghana
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Akan
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
akan
German Name
Tibetisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Akan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Akan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
akan1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Akan 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 Akan dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Akan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Akan Dialects are spoken in different Akan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Akan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Akan dialects include: Asante , Akuapem. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Akan Speaking population
Tibetan and Akan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Akan languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Akan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Akan language is 0.17 %. 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 Akan on Tibetan vs Akan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Akan Language Codes
Tibetan and Akan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Akan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.