1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Burkina Faso
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Dagbani Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Latin
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)
Kia ora
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Laafi bala
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Laafi beme ?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ne y yungo
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ne y zabre
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Kia ora
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Ne y yibeogo
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
gafare
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
gafare
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Wend na kon-d nindaare
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Y gafare
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ouapadoupou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burkina Faso
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Burkina Faso
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million7.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Gur (Voltaic)
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
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
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available