Countries
China, Nepal
  
Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
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.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Kalanga and Nambya Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Alphabets
Not Available
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Mhoro
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Waita zvako
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Wakadini zvako?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Urare zvakanaka
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Manheru
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Masikati
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Mangwanani
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Ndinokumbirawo
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Ndineurombo
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
bye
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Ndinokuda
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Pamusoro
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Hwesa
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Karanga
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
southern Zimbabwe
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Zezuru
  
Where They Speak
China
  
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
8.30 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Not Available
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
  
French Name
tibétain
  
shona
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Schona-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 650
  
20th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Benue-Congo
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Bantu
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Not Available
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Not Available
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
sn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
sna
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
sna
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
sna
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
core1255
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
99-AUT-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Tibetan and Shona Speaking population
Tibetan and Shona speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Shona languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Shona Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Shona language is 0.13 %. 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 Shona on Tibetan vs Shona where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Shona Language Codes
Tibetan and Shona language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Shona Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.