1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
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1.10 Derived From
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Anatolian Languages
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
Arabic, Georgian script
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)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Judaeo-Georgian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
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 million4.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million4.30 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ქართული ენა
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Kartvelian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Georgian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Not Available
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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
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7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic