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Tibetan and German


German and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
7  
8

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
30  
20
9  
1

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

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  

Dialects

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
820,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Texas German  

Where They Speak
China  
Texas  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
6,000.00  
35

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
28  
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
229.00 million  
8

Speaking Population
Not Available  
1.39 %  
12

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  

History

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  
9  
9

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed German  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

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  

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

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Tibetan and German Speaking population

Tibetan and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and German languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and German on Tibetan vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and German Language Codes

Tibetan and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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