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Tibetan and Bengali


Bengali and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Bangladesh, India   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
India   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi   

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.
  
  • Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
  • 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Assamese and Oriya   

Derived From
Not Available   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
51   
30

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
11   
8

How Many Consonants
30   
20
40   
29

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
হ্যালো (Hyālō)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)   

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Chakma   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Bangladesh, Burma, India   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
330,000.00   
36

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Hajong   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Bangladesh, India   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
71,000.00   
36

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Rarhi   

Where They Speak
China   
India   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
25   
21

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
215.00 million   
9

Speaking Population
Not Available   
3.11 %   
8

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
196.00 million   
7

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
19.00 million   
16

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa   

French Name
tibétain   
bengali   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Bengali   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Bengalis (Bengali people)   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1000–1200 CE   

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   
Abahatta, Old Bengali   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Bengali   

Language Position
Not Available   
4   
4

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
bn   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
ben   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
ben   

ISO 639 3
bod   
ben   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
beng1280   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
59-AAF-u   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Tibetan and Bengali Speaking population

Tibetan and Bengali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Bengali languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Bengali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Bengali language is 3.11 %. 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 Bengali on Tibetan vs Bengali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Bengali Language Codes

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

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