Countries
China, Nepal
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
günaydın
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
tibétain
  
turc
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Turkish
  
Origin
c. 650
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic