1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
1.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
1.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
1.6 Hard to Learn
1.6.1 Language Levels
1.7.1 Time Taken to Learn
2 Greetings
2.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
2.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
2.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
2.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
2.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
2.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
2.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
2.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
2.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
2.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
2.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
2.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
3 Dialects
3.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Central Tibetan
3.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China, India, Nepal
3.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
3.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Khams Tibetan
3.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bhutan, China
3.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
3.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Amdo Tibetan
3.3.1 Where They Speak
3.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
3.4 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
4.2 Speaking Population
4.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million1.20 million
0.13
873
4.3.1 Second Language Speakers
4.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
4.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
4.3.4 French Name
4.3.5 German Name
4.4 Pronunciation
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4.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
tibetan people
5 History
5.1 Origin
5.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
5.2.2 Branch
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5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
5.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Tibetan
5.3.3 Language Position
5.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
5.4 Scope
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6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
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6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
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6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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