Countries
China, Nepal
  
Myanmar
  
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 in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Burmese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Tangut
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Intha
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Burma
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
43.00 million
  
30
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Burmese sign language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
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