1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
China, Mongolia
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Mongolia
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
Council for Language and Literature Work, State Language Council (Mongolia)
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.
- Mongolian was first written using Phagspa script in late 13th century.
- There is no connection between Mongolian, Japanese and Korean, but still in terms of grammar and sentence structure they are very similar.
1.9 Similar To
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Turkish Language
1.10 Derived From
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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
Mongolian alphabets: Traditional Mongolian script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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)
Сайн уу (Sain uu)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
та бүхэнд баярлалаа (ta bükhend bayarlalaa)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Юу байна? (Yuu baina?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Сайн шөнийн (Sain shöniin)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Сайн үдэш (Sain üdesh)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Сайн Үдээс хойш (Sain Üdees khoish)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Өглөөний мэнд (Öglöönii mend)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Хэрэв (Kherev)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Уучлаарай (Uuchlaarai)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Баяртай (Bayartai)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Би чамд хайртай (Bi chamd khairtai)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Өршөөгөөрэй (Örshöögöörei)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Khalkha Mongolian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Mongolia
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ordos Mongolian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00123,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Khorchin Mongolian
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 million5.70 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million5.70 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
монгол (mongol) монгол хэл (mongol hêl)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
/mɔŋɢɔ̆ɮ xiɮ/
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
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6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Mongolic 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
Middle Mongolian, Classical Mongolian, Mongolian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Khalkha, Southern Mongolian
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
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
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
part of 44-BAA-b
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
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