Countries
China, Nepal
  
Georgia
  
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
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Derived From
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Anatolian Languages
  
Alphabets in
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Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Arabic, Georgian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
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
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
4.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic