1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
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
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic 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
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
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)
Habari
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Asante
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Habari gani?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Usiku mwema
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Habari za jioni
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
nzuri Alasiri
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Habari za asubuhi
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
tafadhali
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
nakupenda
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Samahani
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Zanzibar island
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Dar es Salaam
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 million150.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million15.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Not Available
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Swahili people or Waswahili
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
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
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Individual, 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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUS-m
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available