Countries
China, Nepal
  
China, Mongolia
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
China, Mongolia
  
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
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
  
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.
  
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Turkish Language
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Хэрэв (Kherev)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Баяртай (Bayartai)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Khalkha Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Ordos Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Khorchin Mongolian
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Mongolia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
5.70 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Not Available
  
French Name
tibétain
  
mongol
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Mongolisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1224-1225
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Mongolic family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Mongolian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Mongolian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
mn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
mon
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
mon
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
mon
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
mong1331
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
part of 44-BAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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