Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Botswana, Lesotho
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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
Similar To
Not Available
Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Molo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ndiyabulela
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Unjani
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ulale kakuhle
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Ubusuku obuhle
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Uben' emva kwemini entle
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Molo
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndicela
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndicela uxolo
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndiyakuthanda
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Uxolo
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Gcaleka
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
South Africa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Thembu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hlubi
Where They Speak
China
South Africa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
isiXhosa
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
French Name
tibétain
xhosa
German Name
Tibetisch
Xhosa-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
Origin
c. 650
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Bantu
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
isiXhosa
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Xhosa
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
xhos1239
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fa
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Xhosa Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Xhosa dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Xhosa language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Xhosa Dialects are spoken in different Xhosa speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Xhosa Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Xhosa dialects include: Gcaleka , Thembu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Xhosa Speaking population
Tibetan and Xhosa speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Xhosa languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Xhosa Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Xhosa language is 0.11 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Xhosa on Tibetan vs Xhosa where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Xhosa Language Codes
Tibetan and Xhosa language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Xhosa Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.
