1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.7 National Language
1.8 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.9 Speaking Continents
1.10 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.11 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
1.12 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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
1.13 Similar To
Not Available
Old German Language
1.14 Derived From
Not Available
Prakrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
4.5 Phonology
4.5.1 How Many Vowels
4.6.4 How Many Consonants
6.3 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
6.4 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
6.5 Hard to Learn
6.5.1 Language Levels
6.7.1 Time Taken to Learn
8 Greetings
8.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
8.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
8.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
8.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
8.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभः सायंकालः
8.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ दुपार
8.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
8.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया (kripayā)
8.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
8.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
8.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
8.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
9 Dialects
9.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Not present
9.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Not Available
9.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
9.3 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
9.3.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not Available
9.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
9.5 Dialect 3
9.5.1 Where They Speak
9.5.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
10.4 Total No. Of Dialects
11 How Many People Speak
11.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million14.10 million
0.13
1200
12.9 Speaking Population
13.2 Native Speakers
1.20 million14.10 million
0.13
873
13.2.1 Second Language Speakers
13.4.1 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
13.4.2 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Not Available
13.4.3 French Name
13.4.4 German Name
13.5 Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
13.6 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
14 History
14.1 Origin
14.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
14.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
14.2.2 Branch
14.3 Language Forms
14.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Vedic Sanskrit
14.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Sanskrit
14.3.3 Language Position
14.3.5 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
14.4 Scope
15 Code
15.1 ISO 639 1
15.2 ISO 639 2
15.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
15.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
15.3 ISO 639 3
15.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
15.5 Glottocode
15.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
15.7 Types of Language
15.7.1 Language Type
15.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
15.7.3 Language Morphological Typology