Countries
China, Nepal
  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
North Korea, South Korea
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
The National Institute of the Korean Language
  
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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Chinese and Japanese languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Korean-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Hangul
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
하십시오 (hasibsio)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
안녕 (annyeong)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Jeju
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Gyeongsang
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
South Korea
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
10,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Hamgyŏng
  
Where They Speak
China
  
China, North Korea
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
22
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
77.00 million
  
12
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
한국어 (조선말)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
  
French Name
tibétain
  
coréen
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Koreanisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Koreans
  
Origin
c. 650
  
Before 1st century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Koreanic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Korean Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ko
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
kor
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
kor
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
Kor
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
kore1280
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
45-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative