1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
South Africa
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
1.8 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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Dutch Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
hallo
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Dankie
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Hoe gaan dit
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
goeie nag
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Goeienaand
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Goeie middag
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
goeie more
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
asseblief
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
jammer
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ek het jou lief
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Verskoon my
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kaapse Afrikaans
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Not Available
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Oranjeriverafrikaans
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Baster Afrikaans
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million7.10 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Afrikaans
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cape Dutch
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Afrikaners
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Afrikaans
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-ba
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology