Countries
China, Nepal
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
Not Available
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Habari
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Asante
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
tafadhali
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pole
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Samahani
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kimgao
Where They Speak
China
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Not Available
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
tibétain
swahili
German Name
Tibetisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
c. 650
6th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Bantu
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Swahili
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Swahili 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 Swahili dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Swahili language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Swahili Dialects are spoken in different Swahili speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Swahili Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Swahili dialects include: Kiunguja , Kimrima. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Swahili Speaking population
Tibetan and Swahili speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Swahili languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Swahili Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Swahili 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 Swahili on Tibetan vs Swahili where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Swahili Language Codes
Tibetan and Swahili language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Swahili Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.