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Tibetan and Bodo


Bodo and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Assam, India   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Assam, India   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not Available   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not Available   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Not Available   

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.
  
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
45   
25

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
20   
17

How Many Consonants
30   
20
25   
15

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Devanagari   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
Not Available   

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
Not Available   

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Not Available   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Not Available   

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Not Available   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Not Available   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
अननानै (Onnanwi)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Not Available   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Not Available   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Not Available   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect   

Where They Speak
China   
Assam, India, Nepal   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
0.60 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
बड़ो (boṛo)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci   

French Name
tibétain   
Not Available   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Not Available   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[bɔɽo]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1913   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Not Available   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
Not Available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
Not Available   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
Not Available   

ISO 639 3
bod   
brx   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
bodo1269   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
Not Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
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All Tibetan and Bodo 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 Bodo dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Bodo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Bodo Dialects are spoken in different Bodo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Bodo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Bodo dialects include: (Sønabari) Western Boro dialect , (Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Bodo Speaking population

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Tibetan and Bodo Language Codes

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

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