1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
The National Institute of the Korean Language
1.8 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Hangul
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
하십시오 (hasibsio)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
South Korea
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0010,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
South Korea
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
한국어 (조선말)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 650
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Korean Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative