1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
1.9 Similar To
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Farsi Language
1.10 Derived From
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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
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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)
Silaw
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Sipas
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Tu çawa yî?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Şev xweş
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Evare baş
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Nee-wa-rowt bash
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bayanit bash
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Bê zehmet
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bibûre
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Be xêr çî
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ez te hez dikem
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Bê zehmet
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Kurdish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Kurdish
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Kurdish
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million28.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million21.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Not Available
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
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
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAA-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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