1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
India, Manipur
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
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
Assam, Manipur, Tripura
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Meithei Language is currently classified as a vulnerable language by UNESCO.
- The oldest document in Methei language was dated back in 8th century were inscriptions on the copper plate.
1.9 Similar To
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Bengali, Odia, Maithili and Meithei Languages
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
Bengali
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
Khurumjari
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Yamna nungaijare
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Nung_ngai_biribra adombo?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Athengba Ahing
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
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3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Nongale haugatl
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Chanbiduna
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Saobiganu
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Chatcharage
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Eina nangbu nungsi
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
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4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burma, Laos
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bangladesh, India
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00273,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Meithei proper
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
Bangladesh, Burma, Northeast India
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,250,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1.50 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million1.50 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
মৈইতৈইলোন
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kathe, Kathi, Manipuri, Meiteilon, Meiteiron, Meithe, Meitei, Menipuri, Mitei, Mithe, Ponna
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
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5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Meithei people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Meithei
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Not Available
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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
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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