Countries
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Andorra, France, Italy, Spain
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Spain
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Aragon, France, Italy, Spain
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, National Languages Committee
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Catalan is 6th most largely spoken Romance language.
- Catalan went through a golden age in low middle ages, reaching a peak of maturity and cultural richness.
  
- 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
Spanish Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Catalan-Alpahabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Hola
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Gràcies
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Com estàs?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Bona nit
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Bona nit
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Bona tarda
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Bon dia
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Sisplau
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Perdó!
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Adéu
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
T'estimo
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Dispensi!
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Caló
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
France, Portugal, Spain
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Valencian
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
2,400,000.00
  
19
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Ribagorçan
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Spain
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
9.20 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.10 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.10 million
  
28
Not Available
  
Native Name
català
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
catalan; valencien
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Katalanisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Catalan people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
c. 1028
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Catalan
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Signed Catalan
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ca
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
cat
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
cat
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
cat
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1289
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-e
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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Catalan 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 Catalan and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Catalan and Tibetan language. Catalan word for "Hello" is Hola or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Catalan Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Catalan vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Catalan vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Catalan 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 Catalan and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Catalan and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Catalan is 24 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.