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Tibetan and Catalan


Catalan and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
6  
9

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Andorra, France, Italy, Spain  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Spain  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Aragon, France, Italy, Spain  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, National Languages Committee  

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.
  
  • Catalan is 6th most largely spoken Romance language.
  • Catalan went through a golden age in low middle ages, reaching a peak of maturity and cultural richness.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Spanish Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Latin  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Catalan-Alpahabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
27  
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
23  
13

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Hola  

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Bona nit  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Bona nit  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Bona tarda  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Bon dia  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Sisplau  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Perdó!  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
T'estimo  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Dispensi!  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Caló  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
France, Portugal, Spain  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
440,000.00  
35

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Valencian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Spain  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
2,400,000.00  
19

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Ribagorçan  

Where They Speak
China  
Spain  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
8  
8

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
4.10 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
5.10 million  
28

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
català  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian  

French Name
tibétain  
catalan; valencien  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Katalanisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Catalan people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 1028  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Romance  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Catalan  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Catalan  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ca  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
cat  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
cat  

ISO 639 3
bod  
cat  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
stan1289  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
51-AAA-e  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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

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Tibetan and Catalan Speaking population

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Tibetan and Catalan Language Codes

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