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Tibetan and Tamil


Tamil and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
6   
9

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, kerala, Puducherry   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Official language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur Tamil University   

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.
  
  • Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago.
  • The first legally recognized Classical Language of India is Tamil.
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Similar To
Not Available   
Malayalam   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
247   
99+

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
12   
9

How Many Consonants
30   
20
18   
8

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Tamil   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
வணக்கம் (Vanakkam)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
நன்றி (Naṉṟi)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்? (Nīṅkaḷ eppaṭi irukkiṟīrkaḷ?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
நல்ல இரவு (Good night) / irravu vanakkam (Good night)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
நல்ல மாலை (Nalla mālai)/ மாலை (irravu vanakkam)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
பிற்பகல் வணக்கம் (perpagal vanakkam)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
காலை வணக்கம் (Kaalai Vanakkam)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
தயவு (Tayavu)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
மன்னிக்கவும் (Maṉṉikkavum)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
சென்று வருகிறேன் (Sendru Varukiren)   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன் (Naan Unnai Kadalikiren)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
என்னை மன்னியுங்கள் (Eṉṉai maṉṉiyuṅkaḷ)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Kongu   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Kongu   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Madurai Tamil   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Tirunelveli Tamil   

Where They Speak
China   
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
10   
10

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
78.00 million   
21

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.06 %   
19

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
70.00 million   
15

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
8.00 million   
24

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
தமிழ்   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili   

French Name
tibétain   
tamoul   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Tamil   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[t̪ɐmɨɻ]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Tamil people or Tamilans   

History

Origin
c. 650   
300 BC   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Dravidian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Tamil   

Language Position
Not Available   
18   
16

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Tamil   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
ta   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
tam   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
tam   

ISO 639 3
bod   
tam   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
tam   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
tami1289, oldt1248   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
tami1289   

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 Tamil 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 Tamil dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Tamil language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Tamil Dialects are spoken in different Tamil speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Tamil Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Tamil dialects include: Kongu , Madurai Tamil. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Tamil Speaking population

Tibetan and Tamil speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Tamil languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Tamil Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tamil language is 1.06 %. 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 Tamil on Tibetan vs Tamil where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Tamil Language Codes

Tibetan and Tamil language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Tamil Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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