Countries
China, Nepal
  
Belarus, Poland
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Belarus, Gambia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Poland
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 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.
  
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
  
Similar To
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Russian and Ukrainian
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Belarusian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
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Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
dobry dzień
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Dziakuj
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Jak vy ?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Dabranač
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Dobry viečar
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
dobry dzień
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Dobraj ranicy
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Kali laska
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Vybačajcie
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
da pabačennia
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
JA liubliu ciabie
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Vybačajcie
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
North-Eastern Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
North-East Belarus
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
South-Western Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
South-West Belarus
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Middle Belarusian
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Middle Belarus
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
9.63 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
7.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.89 million
  
26
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
  
French Name
tibétain
  
biélorusse
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Weißrussisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Belarusians
  
Origin
c. 650
  
18th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Belarusian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
be
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
bel
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
bel
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
bel
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
bela1254
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
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Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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