Tibetan and Igbo
Countries
China, Nepal
Nigeria
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
kedụ
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
dalụ
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Biko
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndo
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
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I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Enuani
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Nigeria
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
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How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
igbo
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ibo
French Name
tibétain
igbo
German Name
Tibetisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Igbo people
Origin
c. 650
30th Century BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Kwa
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Igbo
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
All Tibetan and Igbo 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 Igbo dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Igbo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Igbo Dialects are spoken in different Igbo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Igbo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Igbo dialects include: Enuani , Ngwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Igbo Speaking population
Tibetan and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available. 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 Igbo on Tibetan vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Igbo Language Codes
Tibetan and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.