1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
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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 (Nín hǎo)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
请 (Qǐng)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
中文 (zhōngwén)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
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 Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
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
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating