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Tibetan and Mongolian


Mongolian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
China, Mongolia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Mongolian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
13   
10

How Many Consonants
30   
20
20   
10

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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
123,000.00   
34

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Khorchin Mongolian   

Where They Speak
China   
Mongolia   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
8   
8

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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   

Code

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   
Not Available   

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All Tibetan and Mongolian 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 Mongolian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Mongolian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Mongolian Dialects are spoken in different Mongolian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Mongolian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Mongolian dialects include: Khalkha Mongolian , Ordos Mongolian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Mongolian Speaking population

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Tibetan and Mongolian Language Codes

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