Countries
China, Nepal
  
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
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.
  
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Italian-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)
  
ciao
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
grazie
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Come stai?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
buonanotte
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
buonasera
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
buon pomeriggio
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
buongiorno
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Per Favore
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
scusate
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
arrivederci
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Ti amo
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Scusami
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Romanesco
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Lazio
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
3,000,000.00
  
21
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Central Italian
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
5,000,000.00
  
14
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Tuscan
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
78.00 million
  
21
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
64.00 million
  
18
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
14.00 million
  
20
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Italiano
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Italiano
  
French Name
tibétain
  
italien
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Italienisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[itaˈljaːno]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Italians
  
Origin
c. 650
  
960 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Italian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
it
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
ita
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
ita
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
ita
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
itas
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
ital1282
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
51-AAA-q
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic