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Tibetan and Khasi


Khasi and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Meghalaya  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Bangladesh, India  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not Available  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not Available  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Not Available  

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.
  
  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
23  
5

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
14  
4

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Bengali, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
Not Available  

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
Not Available  

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Kumno  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Khublei  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Kumno phi long?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
thia sukh  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
babha janmiet  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
babha noph-phai-sngi  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
khublei  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Sngewbha  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Map  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
ieit ieit  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
map a nga  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Bhoi  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Not Available  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Nonglung  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Not Available  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Cherrapunji  

Where They Speak
China  
Not Available  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
5  
5

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.84 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Not Available  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia  

French Name
tibétain  
khasi  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Khasi-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
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Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Khasi people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
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Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Austroasiatic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No Early Forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Khasi  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
No data available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
kha  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
kha  

ISO 639 3
bod  
kha  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
khas1269  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

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

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Tibetan and Khasi Speaking population

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

Tibetan and Khasi Language Codes

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

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