1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
China, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Gambia, Laos, Thailand, United States of America, Vietnam
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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1.8 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.
- Hmong language may not be so popular at first sight, but it has rich history and various dialects are spoken by millions of people.
- Hmong language came from western part of China.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Nyob zoo (Nyaw zhong)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ua tsaug (Oua jow)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Koj nyob li cas (Gaw nyaw lee cha)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
zoo hmo
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
zoo yav tsaus ntuj
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
zoo tav su
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
zoo thaum sawv ntxov
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
thov
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Thov txim (Thaw zhee)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
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3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kuv hlub koj
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
zam txim rau kuv
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Hmong Njua
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00310,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,600,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million4.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million3.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Mong
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hmong people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Hmong–Mien Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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6.4 Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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