1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
1.9 Similar To
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Kalanga and Nambya Language
1.10 Derived From
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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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
Mhoro
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Waita zvako
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Wakadini zvako?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Urare zvakanaka
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Manheru
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Masikati
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Mangwanani
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndinokumbirawo
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndineurombo
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndinokuda
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pamusoro
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Zimbabwe
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
southern Zimbabwe
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
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 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million8.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
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6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
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6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Not Available
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
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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