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Tibetan and Kazakh


Kazakh and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
China, Kazakhstan, Russia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
3   
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Gambia, Kazakhstan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Kazakh language agency   

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.
  
  • The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
  • Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Turkish and Uzbek Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
24   
6

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
17   
7

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Arabic, Cyrillic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
өтінемін (ötinemin)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
bye   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Northeastern Kazakh   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Kazakhstan   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Southern Kazakh   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Kazakhstan   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Western Kazakh   

Where They Speak
China   
Kazakhstan   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
11.00 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.17 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
11.00 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq   

French Name
tibétain   
kazakh   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Kasachisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Kazahks   

History

Origin
c. 650   
17th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Turkic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Turkic   

Branch
Not Available   
Northwestern (Kipchak)   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Kazakh   

Language Position
Not Available   
93   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
kk   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
kaz   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
kaz   

ISO 639 3
bod   
kaz   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
kaza1248   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative   

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

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Tibetan and Kazakh Speaking population

Tibetan and Kazakh speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Kazakh languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Kazakh Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Kazakh language is 0.17 %. 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 Kazakh on Tibetan vs Kazakh where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Kazakh Language Codes

Tibetan and Kazakh language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Kazakh Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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