Countries
China, Nepal
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Yemen
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Not Available
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hello
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Subax wanaagsan
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Fadlan
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
sorry
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
caraysiiyo
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
China
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
tibétain
somali
German Name
Tibetisch
Somali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Somalis
Origin
c. 650
19th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Cushitic
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Somali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available
All Tibetan and Somali 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 Somali dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Somali language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Somali Dialects are spoken in different Somali speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Somali Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Somali dialects include: Northern Somali , Benaadir. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Somali Speaking population
Tibetan and Somali speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Somali languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Somali Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Somali language is Not Available. 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 Somali on Tibetan vs Somali where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Somali Language Codes
Tibetan and Somali language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Somali Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.