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Tibetan and Georgian


Georgian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Georgia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

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

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Cabinet of Georgia   

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.
  
  • Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
  • Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Anatolian Languages   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
28   
18

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Arabic, Georgian script   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)   

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
ბოდიში (bodishi)   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Judaeo-Georgian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
80,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Kartlian   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Kartli   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Pshavian   

Where They Speak
China   
Pshavi   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
20   
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
4.30 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
4.30 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
ქართული ენა   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli   

French Name
tibétain   
géorgien   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Georgisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Georgians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
5th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Kartvelian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Southern   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Georgian   

Language Position
Not Available   
120   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
ka   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
kat   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
geo   

ISO 639 3
bod   
kat   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
nucl1302   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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

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