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Tibetan and Zulu


Zulu and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
South Africa   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
South Africa   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Africa   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Pan South African Language Board   

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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
  • Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Xhosa Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Zulu-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
57   
34

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
7   
4

How Many Consonants
30   
20
50   
35

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Sawubona   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Ngiyabonga   

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)   
okuhle ebusuku   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
okuhle kusihlwa   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
okuhle ntambama   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
okuhle ekuseni   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Ngiyacela   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Ngiyaxolisa   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
bye   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Ngiyakuthanda wena   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Uxolo   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Qwabe   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Gabon, South Africa   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Georgia, South Africa   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Ndebele   

Where They Speak
China   
Zimbabwe   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
4   
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
30.00 million   
36

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.16 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
12.00 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
16.00 million   
17

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
isiZulu   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Isizulu, Zunda   

French Name
tibétain   
zoulou   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Zulu-Sprache   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Zulu people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
19   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Niger-Congo Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Benue-Congo   

Branch
Not Available   
Beatu   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
urban Zulu   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Deep Zulu   

Language Position
Not Available   
87   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
zu   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
zul   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
zul   

ISO 639 3
bod   
zul   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
zulu1248   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
99-AUT-fg   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Tibetan and Zulu 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 Zulu dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Zulu language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Zulu Dialects are spoken in different Zulu speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Zulu Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Zulu dialects include: Qwabe , central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Zulu Speaking population

Tibetan and Zulu speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Zulu languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Zulu Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Zulu language is 0.16 %. 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 Zulu on Tibetan vs Zulu where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Zulu Language Codes

Tibetan and Zulu language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Zulu Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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