Countries
China, Nepal
  
India, Pakistan
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Jammu and Kashmir, India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Not Available
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Dogri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Ke aal aee
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
dhanwaad
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
kiyaan oo ji
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
shub ratri
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
shub ratri
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
su prabat
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
kripya
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
changa ji pher
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
gustakhi maaf
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Jaunsari
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
100,000.00
  
99+
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Kullu
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Hinduri
  
Where They Speak
China
  
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
4.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
4.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
डोगरी
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
  
French Name
tibétain
  
dogri
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Dogri
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Dogras
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1971
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European 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
  
Dogri
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
doi
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
indo1311
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
Not Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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