1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
1.9 Similar To
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Hindi Language
1.10 Derived From
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Sanskrit 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
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
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)
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Pothohari
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0020,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
Pakistan, Punjab, India
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 million154.30 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million100.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Tibetisch
Pandschabi-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Availble
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Punjabi
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Not Available
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
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology