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Tibetan and Armenian


Armenian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Armenian Highland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Armenian National Academy of Sciences   

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.
  
  • The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
  • Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Greek   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
38   
20

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
32   
22

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Armenian manuscript   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
12   
9

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Բարեւ (Barev)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Բարի օր (Bari or)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
կներեք (knerek’)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Ց'տեսություն   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Eastern Armenian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Western Armenian   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Not Applicable   

Where They Speak
China   
Not Applicable   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
2   
2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
6.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
6.00 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Հայերէն (Hayeren)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri   

French Name
tibétain   
arménien   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Armenisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Armenians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
late 5th century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
hy   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
hye   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
arm   

ISO 639 3
bod   
hye   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
arme1241   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
57-AAA-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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All Tibetan and Armenian 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 Armenian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Armenian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Armenian Dialects are spoken in different Armenian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Armenian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Armenian dialects include: Eastern Armenian , Western Armenian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Armenian Speaking population

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Tibetan and Armenian Language Codes

Tibetan and Armenian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Armenian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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