1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Sri Lanka
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
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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.
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
Sinhala alphabet
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)
හලෝ (halō)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
බායි (bāyi)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not Available
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
Amdo Tibetan
Not Available
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 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
සිංහල (sĩhala)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Sinhalese
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