1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
South Africa
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
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.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
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1.10 Derived From
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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Hello
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Thank you
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Good Morning
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Please
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Sorry
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Bye
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hiberno-English
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.004,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Welsh English
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million400.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA400.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
English
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
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
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6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European 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
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed English
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
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic