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Tulu and Tibetan


Tibetan and Tulu


Countries

Countries
India   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
India   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
  • Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Kannada Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
51   
30
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
16   
13
5   
2

How Many Consonants
35   
25
30   
20

Scripts
Kannada Script   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5   
4
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Namaskara   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Mast Upakara.   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
yedde rathre   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
yedde baiyya   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
yedde kaande   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Daya maltadu   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Barpe   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Kshamisi   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Jain   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Girijan   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
4   
4
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.70 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.70 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Tulu   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
Not Available   
tibétain   

German Name
Not Available   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Tuluva   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
14   
c. 650   

Language Family
Dravidian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Tulu   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
Not Available   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
Not Available   
tib   

ISO 639 3
tcy   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tulu1258   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Tulu and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tulu and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Tulu and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tulu are spoken in different Tulu Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tulu vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tulu dialects include: Brahmin tulu, Jain. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tulu and Tibetan Speaking population

Tulu and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tulu and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Tulu and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tulu language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tulu and Tibetan on Tulu vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tulu and Tibetan Language Codes

Tulu and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tulu and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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