Countries
China, Nepal
India, Nepal
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Not Available
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good afternoon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Doteli
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nepal
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
China
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
tibétain
népalais
German Name
Tibetisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
All Tibetan and Nepali 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 Nepali dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Nepali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Nepali Dialects are spoken in different Nepali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Nepali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Nepali dialects include: Doteli , Bajhangi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Nepali Speaking population
Tibetan and Nepali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Nepali languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Nepali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Nepali language is 0.25 %. 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 Nepali on Tibetan vs Nepali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Nepali Language Codes
Tibetan and Nepali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Nepali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.