Countries
China, Nepal
  
Philippines
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Philippines
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Filipinos
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Australia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Baybayin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Kamusta
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Salamat po
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Kamusta ka na?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Magandang gabi
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Magandang gabi po
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Magandang hapon po
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Magandang umaga po
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
pakiusap
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
pinagsisisihan
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Paálam
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Iniibig kita
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Batangas Tagalog
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Batangas, Gabon
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Bisalog
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Filipino
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
73.00 million
  
24
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
28.00 million
  
29
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
45.00 million
  
13
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Tagalog
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Filipino, Pilipino
  
French Name
tibétain
  
tagalog
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Tagalog
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Tagalog people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1593
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indonesian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Filipino
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
t1
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
tgl
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
tg1
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
taga1269
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
31-CKA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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