Countries
China, Nepal
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Russki
  
French Name
tibétain
  
russe
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Russians
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Standard Russian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic