Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Turkey
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Merhaba
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
İyi Geceler
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
günaydın
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
lütfen
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
üzgünüm
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Hoşçakal
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.00
  
9
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Gagauz
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million
  
23
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
60.00 million
  
20
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
Türkçe
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
turc
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Türkisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Turkish
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 1350
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Turkic Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Turkic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
tr
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tur
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
tur
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
tur
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1301
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
  
Not Available