Countries
China, Nepal
  
Fiji, India
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Oceania
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Central Hindi Directorate
  
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.
  
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Urdu
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Hindi.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
नमस्ते (Namastē)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
खेद (Khēda)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
अलविदा (Alavidā)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Khariboli
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
240,000,000.00
  
2
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Marwari
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
22,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Bundeli
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Bundelkhand
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
20,000,000.00
  
4
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
380.00 million
  
5
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
260.00 million
  
4
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
120.00 million
  
6
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
हिन्दी
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
  
French Name
tibétain
  
hindi
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Hindi
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Hindustani people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
7th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Standard Hindi
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
hi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
hin
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
hin
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
hin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
hins
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
hind1269
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
59-AAF-qf
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic