Countries
Armenian Highland
China, Nepal
National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
- 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
Greek
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Armenian manuscript
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Ց'տեսություն
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Western Armenian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not Applicable
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Applicable
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
arménien
tibétain
German Name
Armenisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
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Ethnicity
Armenians
tibetan people
Origin
late 5th century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
arme1241
tibe1272
Linguasphere
57-AAA-a
No data Available
Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Armenian 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 Armenian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Armenian and Tibetan language. Armenian word for "Hello" is Բարեւ (Barev) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Armenian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Armenian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Armenian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Armenian 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 Armenian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Armenian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Armenian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.