1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, kerala, Puducherry
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Official language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur Tamil University
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.
- Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago.
- The first legally recognized Classical Language of India is Tamil.
1.9 Similar To
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
Tamil
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)
வணக்கம் (Vanakkam)
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
நன்றி (Naṉṟi)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்? (Nīṅkaḷ eppaṭi irukkiṟīrkaḷ?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
நல்ல இரவு (Good night) / irravu vanakkam (Good night)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
நல்ல மாலை (Nalla mālai)/ மாலை (irravu vanakkam)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
பிற்பகல் வணக்கம் (perpagal vanakkam)
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
காலை வணக்கம் (Kaalai Vanakkam)
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
தயவு (Tayavu)
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
மன்னிக்கவும் (Maṉṉikkavum)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
சென்று வருகிறேன் (Sendru Varukiren)
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன் (Naan Unnai Kadalikiren)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
என்னை மன்னியுங்கள் (Eṉṉai maṉṉiyuṅkaḷ)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kongu
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Madurai Tamil
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tirunelveli Tamil
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli
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 million78.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million70.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Tamil people or Tamilans
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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6.2.2 Branch
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Tamil
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Tamil
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
tami1289, oldt1248
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
tami1289
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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