Countries
China, Nepal
  
India
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Old German Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Prakrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Devanagari
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
शुभः सायंकालः
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
शुभ दुपार
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
कृपया (kripayā)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Total No. Of Dialects
0
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
14.10 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
14.10 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Not Available
  
French Name
tibétain
  
sanskrit
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Sanskrit
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 650
  
2000 B.C.
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Vedic Sanskrit
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Sanskrit
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
sa
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
san
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
san
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
san
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
sans1269
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Ancient
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic
  
Tibetan and Sanskrit Speaking population
Tibetan and Sanskrit speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Sanskrit languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Sanskrit Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Sanskrit language is Not Available. 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 Sanskrit on Tibetan vs Sanskrit where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Sanskrit Language Codes
Tibetan and Sanskrit language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Sanskrit Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.