Countries
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
China, Nepal
National Language
Bangladesh, India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
India
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
- 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
Assamese and Oriya
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Chakma
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, Burma, India
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Hajong
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bangladesh, India
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Rarhi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
bengali
tibétain
German Name
Bengali
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not available
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Ethnicity
Bengalis (Bengali people)
tibetan people
Origin
1000–1200 CE
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
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Early Forms
Abahatta, Old Bengali
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Bengali
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
beng1280
tibe1272
Linguasphere
59-AAF-u
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
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Bengali 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 Bengali and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bengali and Tibetan language. Bengali word for "Hello" is হ্যালো (Hyālō) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Bengali Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Bengali vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Bengali vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bengali 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 Bengali and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bengali and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bengali is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.