Countries
China, Nepal
  
India
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
  
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.
  
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Munda Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Henda ho
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Adi Johar
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Cet’leka menama?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Boge Ninda
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Boge Ayup’
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Not Available
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Boge Setak’
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Not Available
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Not Available
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Mahali
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
India
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
6.30 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
6.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
  
French Name
tibétain
  
santal
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Santali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
  
Origin
c. 650
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Santali
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
No data available
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
sat
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
sat
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
sat
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
sant1410
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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