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Akan vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Akan


Countries

Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Ghana  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa  
Asia  

Minority Language
Benin, United States of America  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
  • Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  
  • 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
21  
3
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
16  
6
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
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
ete-sen  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
meda ase  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
maadwo  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
maadwo  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
maaha  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
maakye  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
wae  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Kafra  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Me doכ wo  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Asante  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ghana  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
13
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Akuapem  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ghana  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
10
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Fante  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ghana  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00  
15
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.17 %  
99+
Not Available  

Native Speakers
11.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
Akan  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
akan  
tibétain  

German Name
Akan-Sprache  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
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Ethnicity
Akan people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
15  
c. 650  

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family  
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
Akan  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
104  
99+
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
ak  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
aka  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
aka  
tib  

ISO 639 3
aka  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
akan1251  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Akan and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Akan vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Akan and Tibetan language. History of Akan language states that this language originated in 15 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 Akan and Tibetan Language History.

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Akan 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 Akan and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Akan and Tibetan language. Akan word for "Hello" is ete-sen or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Akan Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Akan vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Akan vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Akan 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 Akan and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Akan and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Akan is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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