Countries
China, Nepal
Burma
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
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Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Bwakeye
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Urakoze
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Mwaramutse
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndagusavye
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
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Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
N’agasaga
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
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Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
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Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ha
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Tanzania
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Shubi
Where They Speak
China
Tanzania
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
rundi
German Name
Tibetisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kirundi
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
rund1242
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Kirundi 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 Kirundi dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Kirundi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Kirundi Dialects are spoken in different Kirundi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Kirundi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Kirundi dialects include: Rwanda-Rundi , Ha. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Kirundi Speaking population
Tibetan and Kirundi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Kirundi languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Kirundi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Kirundi language is 0.13 %. 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 Kirundi on Tibetan vs Kirundi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Kirundi Language Codes
Tibetan and Kirundi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Kirundi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.