Countries
China, Nepal
  
Assam, India
  
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
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Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bodo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
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Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
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Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
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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།
  
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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)
  
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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།
  
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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
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
0.60 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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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)
  
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
  
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
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Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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