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
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Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Time Taken to Learn
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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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Karanga
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Zezuru
Where They Speak
China
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
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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
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
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Origin
c. 650
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
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Bantu
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
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Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
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Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
core1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Shona Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Shona dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Shona language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Shona Dialects are spoken in different Shona speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Shona Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Shona dialects include: Hwesa , Karanga. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
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.
