1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Albanian 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
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)
Danke
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Wie geht es dir?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
gute Nacht
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
guten Abend
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
guten Tag
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
guten Morgen
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
bitte
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Verzeihung
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Tschüs
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ich liebe dich
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Entschuldigung
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Swiss German
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Switzerland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.004,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Swabian German
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00820,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Texas German
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.006,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million229.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million101.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA128.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Deutsch
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Deutsch, Tedesco
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed German
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
tibe1272
high1287, uppe1397
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic