1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Myanmar Language Commission
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.
- The naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Thai Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Pali 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
Tangut
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)
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Arakanese
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00440,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0090,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million43.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million33.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Bamar people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Burmese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Burmese sign language
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
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
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating