Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Nepal
National Language
China, Taiwan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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 in
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Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
请 (Qǐng)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Mandarin
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Wu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Yue
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
China
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
chinois
tibétain
German Name
Chinesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Han
tibetan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sini1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
79-AAA
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese 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 Chinese and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Chinese and Tibetan language. Chinese word for "Hello" is 您好 (Nín hǎo) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Chinese Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Chinese vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Chinese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.