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Tibetan vs Chinese


Countries

Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
26  
8
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
24  
19
5  
2

How Many Consonants
23  
13
30  
20

Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
13
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mandarin  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00  
1
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Wu  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China, United States of America  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00  
1
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Yue  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam  
China  

How Many People Speak
60,000,000.00  
2
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million  
2
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
16.00 %  
2
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Native Speakers
873.00 million  
1
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
178.00 million  
3
Not Available  

Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
chinois  
tibétain  

German Name
Chinesisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Han  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1250 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Not Available  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Chinese  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
1  
1
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Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
zh  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
zho  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
chi  
tib  

ISO 639 3
zho  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sini1245  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
79-AAA  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

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 Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Tibetan language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 BC 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 Chinese and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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