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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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