Countries
China, Nepal
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
hallo
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
bitte
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
tibétain
  
allemand
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Germans
  
Origin
c. 650
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic