Countries
China, Nepal
  
Japan
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Japan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Pacific
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Palau
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
  
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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Korean Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Kana
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
ありがとう (Arigatō)
  
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?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
おはよう (Ohayō)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
さようなら (Sayōnara)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
すみません (Sumimasen)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Sanuki
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Kagawa
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
1,000,000.00
  
28
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Hakata
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Fukuoka
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Kansai
  
Where They Speak
China
  
kansai
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
14
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
128.00 million
  
9
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
日本語
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Not Available
  
French Name
tibétain
  
japonais
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Japanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Japanese (Yamato)
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1185
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Japonic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Japanese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Japanese
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ja
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
jpn
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
nucl1643
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
45-CAA-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative, Synthetic