Countries
China, Nepal
  
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Moldova, Romania
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Kazakhstan, Russia
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
  
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.
  
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Romanian.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
alo
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
multumesc
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
ce mai faci?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
noapte Buna
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
buna Seara
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
buna Ziua
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
bună Dimineața
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Vă Rog
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
scuze
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
La revedere
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Te iubesc
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Scuza-Ma
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Aromanian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Megleno-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Istro-Romanian
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
38
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
24.00 million
  
33
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
4.00 million
  
30
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Română
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
  
French Name
tibétain
  
roumain; moldave
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Rumänisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[roˈmɨnə]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Romanians
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1521
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Proto-Romanian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Romanian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Romanian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ro
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
ron
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
rum
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
ron
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
roma1327
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
51-AAD-c
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic