Countries
China, Nepal
  
Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Andra Pradesh, India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Karnataka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh
  
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.
  
- Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world that has every single word that ends with a vowel sound. Telugu language is called "Italian of the East".
- Telugu is one of the oldest language in India which is 2,400 years old.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Tamil
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Telugu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Telugu Script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
హలో (Halō)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
బై (Bai)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Waddar
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Chenchu
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Manna-Dora
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
80.00 million
  
20
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
5.00 million
  
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
తెలుగు (telugu)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan
  
French Name
tibétain
  
télougou
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Telugu-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Telugu people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
c. 575
  
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
  
Early Telugu epigraphy
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Telugu
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
te
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
tel
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
tel
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
tel
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
telu1262
  
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