1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Palau
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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.
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Korean Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Kana
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
おはよう (Ohayō)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
すみません (Sumimasen)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kagawa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
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 million128.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million128.00 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
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Japanese (Yamato)
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Japanese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Japanese
6.4 Scope
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
45-CAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic