Countries
China, Nepal
  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Roman Empire
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
  
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.
  
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Armenian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Arabic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
γεια σας (geia sas)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
αντίο (antío)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Cappadocian Greek
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Greece
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Griko
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Italy
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Mariupol
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
13.00 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
ελληνικά
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
  
French Name
tibétain
  
grec moderne (après 1453)
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Neugriechisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[eliniˈka]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Greeks or Hellenes
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1500 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Hellenic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Modern Greek
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Greek Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
el
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
ell
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
gre
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
ell
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
ells
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
gree1276
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
56-AAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic