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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
232
Bhojpuri
0 46
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
France
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Italian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Latin
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
3526
Irish
18 247
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
56
Hebrew
0 32
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
3020
German
9 60
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
26
Bengali
2 12
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
Cebuano
3 88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
bonjour
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Merci
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Comment allez-vous?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
bonne Nuit
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
bonsoir
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
bon Après-Midi
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bonjour
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
S'il vous plaît
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
désolé
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
au revoir
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Je t'aime
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Excuse Moi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Quebec French
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,200,000.00
Macedonian
1.5 960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
African French
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
Dzongkha
700 80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Swiss French
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
Northeast France, Switzerland
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,800,000.00
Romanian
1400 96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
625
Sanskrit
0 188
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million163.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 1200
5.2 Speaking Population
NA1.12 %
Xhosa
0.11 89
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million76.00 million
Abkhaz
0.13 873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA87.00 million
Finnish
0.01 400
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
français
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Français
5.3.4 French Name
tibétain
français
5.3.5 German Name
Tibetisch
Französisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 650
9th Century
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old French, Middle French and French
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard French
6.3.3 Language Position
NA13
Chinese
1 120
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
bo
fr
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
bod
fra
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
tib
fre
7.3 ISO 639 3
bod
fra
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
fras
7.5 Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1290
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-i
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic

Tibetan vs French Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Tibetan vs French speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Tibetan or French language.

  • Tibetan is spoken as a national language in: Nepal, Tibet.
  • French is spoken as a national language in: France.

You will also get to know the continents where Tibetan and French speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Tibetan language is not available and position of French language is 13. Find all the information about these languages on Tibetan and French.

Tibetan and French Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs French language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and French language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of French language states that this language originated in 9th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and French Language History.

Tibetan and French Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and French greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and French language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or French word for "Thank You" is Merci. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and French Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs French Difficulty

The Tibetan vs French difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and French Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and French are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and French, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn French time required is 24 weeks.