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Tibetan and Burmese


Burmese and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Myanmar   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Myanmar   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Bangladesh, Burma   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Mon   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Myanmar Language Commission   

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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
  • It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Thai Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Pali Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
12   
9

How Many Consonants
30   
20
33   
23

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Tangut   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)   

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)   

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

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

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Arakanese   

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

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
2,000,000.00   
24

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Tavoyan   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Myanmar   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
440,000.00   
30

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Intha   

Where They Speak
China   
Burma   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
90,000.00   
30

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
5   
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
43.00 million   
30

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.50 %   
29

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
33.00 million   
28

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
10.00 million   
23

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa   

French Name
tibétain   
birman   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Birmanisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Bamar people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1113 AD   

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   
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Burmese   

Language Position
Not Available   
43   
32

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Burmese sign language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
my   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
mya   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
bur   

ISO 639 3
bod   
mya   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
sout3159   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Analytic, Isolating   

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

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Tibetan and Burmese Speaking population

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Tibetan and Burmese Language Codes

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