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Bodo vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Bodo


Countries

Countries
Assam, India   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Assam, India   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not Available   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not Available   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Not Available   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
  
  • 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
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language   
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
45   
25
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
20   
17
5   
2

How Many Consonants
25   
15
30   
20

Scripts
Devanagari   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
Not Available   
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
Not Available   
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Not Available   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Not Available   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Nungni khabora ma?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Not Available   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Not Available   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
अननानै (Onnanwi)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

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

Bye
Not Available   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)   
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
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Assam, India, Nepal   
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?
0.60 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.60 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
बड़ो (boṛo)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
Not Available   
tibétain   

German Name
Not Available   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[bɔɽo]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1913   
c. 650   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Not Available   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Not Available   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
Not Available   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
Not Available   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
Not Available   
tib   

ISO 639 3
brx   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
bodo1269   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
Not 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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Bodo and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Bodo vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Bodo and Tibetan language. History of Bodo language states that this language originated in 1913 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 Bodo and Tibetan Language History.

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Bodo 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 Bodo and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bodo and Tibetan language. Bodo word for "Hello" is Not Available or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Bodo Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bodo vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Bodo vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bodo 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 Bodo and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bodo and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bodo is Not Available while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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