1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Chinese Language
1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
您好
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
谢谢
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
你好吗？
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
晚安
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
早上好
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
再见
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
我爱你
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million52.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kwang Tung Wa
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
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6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Cantonese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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6.4 Scope
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7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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