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Tibetan and Cebuano


Cebuano and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Philippines   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Philippines   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Philippines   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters   

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.
  
  • About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
  • Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Hiligaynon Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Island of Cebu   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
21   
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
16   
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
3 weeks   
1

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Maayong Gabii   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Maayong Gabii   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Maayong Hapon   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Maayong Buntag   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Palihug   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Ikasubo ko   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Gihigugma ko ikaw   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Ekskyus mi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Boholano   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Bohol   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Southern Kana   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
southern Leyte   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
North Kana   

Where They Speak
China   
northern part of Leyte   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
4   
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
Not Available   

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.32 %   
38

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
21.00 million   
36

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
14.50 million   
19

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan   

French Name
tibétain   
cebuano   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Cebuano   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Cebuano people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
16th century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Austronesian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Standard Cebuano   

Language Position
Not Available   
62   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
No data Available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
ceb   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
ceb   

ISO 639 3
bod   
ceb   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
cebu1242   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Verb-Subject-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Tibetan and Cebuano Speaking population

Tibetan and Cebuano speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Cebuano languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Cebuano Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Cebuano language is 0.32 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Cebuano on Tibetan vs Cebuano where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Cebuano Language Codes

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

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