Countries
China, Nepal
Burkina Faso
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
Not Available
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.
Similar To
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Dagbani Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kia ora
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Laafi bala
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Kia ora
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Ne y yibeogo
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
gafare
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
gafare
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Saremde
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Taolende
Where They Speak
China
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Mosse
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Not Available
French Name
tibétain
moré
German Name
Tibetisch
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Mossi
Origin
c. 650
Not available
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic
Branch
Not Available
Gur (Voltaic)
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Mossi
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
moss1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Mossi 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 Mossi dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Mossi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Mossi Dialects are spoken in different Mossi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Mossi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Mossi dialects include: Ouapadoupou , Saremde. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Mossi Speaking population
Tibetan and Mossi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Mossi languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Mossi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Mossi language is 0.11 %. 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 Mossi on Tibetan vs Mossi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Mossi Language Codes
Tibetan and Mossi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Mossi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.