1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
1.8 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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
1.9 Similar To
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Munda Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Henda ho
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Adi Johar
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Cet’leka menama?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Boge Ninda
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Boge Ayup’
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Boge Setak’
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Not Available
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Not Available
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
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4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million6.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million6.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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