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Tibetan and Japanese


Japanese and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Japan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
99   
40

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
14   
4

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Kana   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
88 weeks   
13

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
31   
25

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
128.00 million   
14

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.90 %   
10

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)   

History

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   
8   
8

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Japanese   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

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   

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All Tibetan and Japanese 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 Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Japanese Speaking population

Tibetan and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Tibetan vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Japanese Language Codes

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