Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
China, Nepal
National Language
Abkhazia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
- 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
Adyghe language, Abaza language
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Derived From
Caucasian languages
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
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Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
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thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
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ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
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ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
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དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Bzyb
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Abzhywa
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Caucasus
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Sadz
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Turkey
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
abkhaze
tibétain
German Name
Abchasisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
tibetan people
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
abks
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Glottocode
abkh1244
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
Historical
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Abkhaz and Tibetan Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Abkhaz and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Abkhaz and Tibetan language. Abkhaz word for "Hello" is Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Abkhaz Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Abkhaz vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Abkhaz vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Abkhaz Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Abkhaz and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Abkhaz and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Abkhaz is 27 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
