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Tibetan and Somali


Somali and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

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

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Somali-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
52 weeks  
12

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Northern Somali  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Gabon, Standard Somali  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Benaadir  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Af-Ashraaf  

Where They Speak
China  
Standard Somali  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
13.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
8.00 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
c. 650  
19th century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Afro-Asiatic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Cushitic  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Somali  

Language Position
Not Available  
83  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Somali Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
so  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
som  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
som  

ISO 639 3
bod  
som  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
soma1255  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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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.

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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.

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