Countries
China, Nepal
  
European Union, Ireland
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Ireland
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Ireland
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Foras na Gaeilge
  
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 Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
  
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Irish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Dia dhuit
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Go raibh maith agat
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Conas atá tú ?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Oíche mhaith
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Tráthnóna maith duit
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Dia dhuit ar maidin
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
le do thoil
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Tá brón orm
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Slán
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Is breá liom thú
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Gabh mo leithscéal
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Connacht Irish
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Connacht
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Munster Irish
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Munster
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Ulster Irish
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Ulster
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
1.79 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
0.14 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.65 million
  
35
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
  
French Name
tibétain
  
irlandais moyen
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Mittelirisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Irish people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
c. 750
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Celtic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Goidelic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Irish Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ga
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
gle
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
gle
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
gle
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
iris1253
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
50-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional