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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   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Khasi people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
Not Available   

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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