Countries
China, Nepal
  
India
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Bangladesh, India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
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.
  
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
Similar To
Not Available
  
Bengali and Oriya
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Bengali
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
nomoskaar
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
aapuni kene aase?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
subhoraattri
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
subha gadhuli
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
subha abeli
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
suprobhaat
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
anugroha kori
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
moi ḍukkhita
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
biḍai
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
kyoma koribo
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Kamrupi
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Western Assam
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
6,000,000.00
  
16
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Goalpariya
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Western Assam
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Bhakatiya
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Assam
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
15.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
15.00 million
  
40
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
French Name
tibétain
  
assamais
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Assamesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Assamese people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
7th century A.D
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Kamarupa
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Assamese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
as
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
asm
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
asm
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
asm
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
assa1263
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
59-AAF-w
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Tibetan and Assamese Speaking population
Tibetan and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Assamese on Tibetan vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Assamese Language Codes
Tibetan and Assamese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Assamese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.