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Vietnamese and Tibetan


Tibetan and Vietnamese


Countries

Countries
Vietnam   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Vietnam   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Czech Republic   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Interesting Facts
  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  
  • 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
Chinese Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Chinese Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
37   
19
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Xin chào   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Cam on   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

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

Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Chào buổi tối   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
xin vui lòng   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Xin lỗi   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
tôi yêu bạn   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
5   
5
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
91.00 million   
16
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.14 %   
16
Not Available   

Native Speakers
75.00 million   
14
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
16.00 million   
17
Not Available   

Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
vietnamien   
tibétain   

German Name
Vietnamesisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
c. 1440   
c. 650   

Language Family
Austroasiatic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
14   
13
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
vi   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
vie   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
vie   
tib   

ISO 639 3
vie   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
viet1252   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
46-EBA   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating   
Not Available   

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All Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Vietnamese and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Vietnamese are spoken in different Vietnamese Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Vietnamese vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Vietnamese dialects include: Northern Vietnamese, North-central Vietnamese. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Vietnamese and Tibetan Speaking population

Vietnamese and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Vietnamese and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Vietnamese and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Vietnamese language is 1.14 % 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 Vietnamese and Tibetan on Vietnamese vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Vietnamese and Tibetan Language Codes

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