Countries
China, Nepal
  
Vietnam
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Vietnam
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Czech Republic
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Chinese Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Vietnamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Xin chào
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Cam on
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Bạn khỏe không?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Chúc ngủ ngon
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Chào buổi tối
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Chào buổi trưa
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Chào buổi sáng
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
xin vui lòng
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Xin lỗi
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Tạm biệt
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
tôi yêu bạn
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Xin loi
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Northern Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
North-central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Mid-Central Vietnamese
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
91.00 million
  
16
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
75.00 million
  
14
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
16.00 million
  
17
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
tiếng việt (㗂越)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
  
French Name
tibétain
  
vietnamien
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Vietnamesisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
  
Origin
c. 650
  
c. 1440
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austroasiatic Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Standard Vietnamese
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Vietnamese sign languages
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
vi
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
vie
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
vie
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
vie
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
viet1252
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
46-EBA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic, Isolating