Countries
Philippines
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Philippines
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
  
- 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
Tagalog Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Spanish Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Filipino-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kumusta
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Salamat
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Kumusta
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
magandang gabi
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Magandang gabi
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Magandang umaga
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Mangyaring
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Paalam
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Mahal kita
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
patawarin ninyo ako
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Bikol
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Hiligaynon
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
8,200,000.00
  
11
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Waray
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
2,600,000.00
  
13
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
90.00 million
  
17
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
45.00 million
  
23
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
  
13
Not Available
  
Native Name
filipino
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Pilipino
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
filipino; pilipino
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Pilipino
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
16th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Austronesian 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
Filipino
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No Data Available
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fil
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
fil
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
fil
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
fili1244
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No Data Available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Filipino 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 Filipino and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Filipino and Tibetan language. Filipino word for "Hello" is Kumusta or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Filipino Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Filipino vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Filipino vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Filipino 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 Filipino and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Filipino and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Filipino is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.