Countries
China, Nepal
  
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
  
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.
Similar To
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Malayalam
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Tamil-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Tamil
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
78.00 million
  
21
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
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
  
Origin
c. 650
  
300 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Dravidian Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
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Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Modern Tamil
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Signed Tamil
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
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
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Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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