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Tibetan and Basque


Basque and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
France, Spain   

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   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Euskaltzaindia, 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.
  
  • The Basque language is the oldest European language.
  • Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Spanish   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
27   
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
21   
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Kaixo   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Eskerrik asko   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Zer moduz?   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Gabon   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Arratsalde on   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Arratsalde on   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Egun on   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Mesedez   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Barkatu   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Agur   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Maite zaitut   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Barkatu   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Navarro-Lapurdian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
France   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
68,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Souletin   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
France, Soule, Spain   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
8,700.00   
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Biscayan   

Where They Speak
China   
Spain   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
7.20 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Not available   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense   

French Name
tibétain   
basque   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Baskisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Basque people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
c. 1000   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Vasconic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Basque   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
eu   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
eus   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
baq   

ISO 639 3
bod   
eus   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
basq1248   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
40-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   

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

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Tibetan and Basque Speaking population

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Tibetan and Basque Language Codes

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

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