Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Latvia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Latvian State Language Center
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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Not Available
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Latvian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Sveiki
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Paldies
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labdien
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Labrīt
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
lūdzu
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Piedodiet!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Livonian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Latvia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Latvia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
High Latvian
Where They Speak
China
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lettish
French Name
tibétain
letton
German Name
Tibetisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Latvians or Letts
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Baltic
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Latvian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data Available
54-AAB-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
All Tibetan and Latvian 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 Latvian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Latvian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Latvian Dialects are spoken in different Latvian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Latvian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Latvian dialects include: Livonian , Middle Latvian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Latvian Speaking population
Tibetan and Latvian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Latvian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Latvian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Latvian 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 Latvian on Tibetan vs Latvian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Latvian Language Codes
Tibetan and Latvian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Latvian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.