Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
National Language
South Africa
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Namibia, South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
- 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
Dutch Language
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Derived From
Dutch Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Afrikaans-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Dankie
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Hoe gaan dit
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
goeie nag
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Goeienaand
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Goeie middag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
goeie more
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
asseblief
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
jammer
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Not Available
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ek het jou lief
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Verskoon my
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Kaapse Afrikaans
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baster Afrikaans
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Namibia
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Afrikaans
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cape Dutch
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
afrikaans
tibétain
German Name
Afrikaans
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Afrikaners
tibetan people
Origin
17th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
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Early Forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Afrikaans
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
afrs
Not Available
Glottocode
afri1274
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-ACB-ba
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic
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Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Afrikaans and Tibetan language. Afrikaans word for "Hello" is hallo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Afrikaans Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Afrikaans vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Afrikaans vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Afrikaans and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Afrikaans is 24 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.