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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

Tibetan and Catalan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Catalan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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