Countries
China, Nepal
  
Ukraine
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Ukraine
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
  
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.
  
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Russian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Ukrainian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
будь ласк
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
вибачте (vybachte)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
до побачення (do pobachennya)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Podillian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Volynian
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Rivne, Volyn
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Steppe
  
Where They Speak
China
  
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
32
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
39.00 million
  
25
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Not Available
  
French Name
tibétain
  
ukrainien
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Ukrainisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Ukrainians
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1561
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Modern Ukrainian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Ukrainian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
uk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
ukr
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
ukra1253
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic