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Abkhaz vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Abkhaz


Countries

Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
2   
13

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
Not Available   
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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Caucasian languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
62   
36
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
2   
1
5   
2

How Many Consonants
60   
36
30   
20

Scripts
Cyrillic   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks   
8
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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
Not Available   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Not Available   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
Not available   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Not available   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Bzyb   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Abkhazia   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
Abzhywa   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Caucasus   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Sadz   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Turkey   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.13 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Abkhaz people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
c. 1650   
c. 650   

Language Family
Northwest Caucasian   
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
Abkhaz   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ab   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
abk   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
abk   
tib   

ISO 639 3
abk   
bod   

ISO 639 6
abks   
Not Available   

Glottocode
abkh1244   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Not Available   

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Abkhaz and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Abkhaz vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Abkhaz and Tibetan language. History of Abkhaz language states that this language originated in c. 1650 whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Abkhaz and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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