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Tibetan and Oromo


Oromo and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Ethiopia, Kenya   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Ethiopia   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Africa   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Somalia   

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.
  
  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Somali Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
34   
16

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
10   
7

How Many Consonants
30   
20
24   
14

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
Not Available   

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
akkam   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Galatoomi   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Attam jirta/jirtu?   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Nagayattii buli   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Akkam waarite   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Attam oolte / ooltan   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Attam bulte/bultan   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Maaloo   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
naa dhiisi   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Nagayattii!   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Sin jaaladha   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Maaloo na dabarsi   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Borana   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Ethiopia, Kenya   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
4,000,000.00   
19

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Orma   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Kenya   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
66,000.00   
37

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Wata   

Where They Speak
China   
Kenya   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
13,000.00   
33

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
17   
16

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
25.00 million   
40

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.36 %   
36

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
24.00 million   
33

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Afaan Oromo   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Afaan Oromoo   

French Name
tibétain   
galla   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Galla-Sprache   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Oromos   

History

Origin
c. 650   
16   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Afro-Asiatic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Cushitic   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Afaan Oromo   

Language Position
Not Available   
91   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Macrolanguage   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
om   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
orm   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
orm   

ISO 639 3
bod   
orm   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
nucl1736   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Tibetan and Oromo Speaking population

Tibetan and Oromo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Oromo languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Oromo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Oromo language is 0.36 %. 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 Oromo on Tibetan vs Oromo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Oromo Language Codes

Tibetan and Oromo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Oromo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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