Countries
Georgia
China, Nepal
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Cabinet of Georgia
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
- 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
Anatolian Languages
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Georgian script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ბოდიში (bodishi)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Judaeo-Georgian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Kartlian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kartli
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Pshavian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Pshavi
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
ქართული ენა
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
géorgien
tibétain
German Name
Georgisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
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Ethnicity
Georgians
tibetan people
Origin
5th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Kartvelian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Southern
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Georgian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nucl1302
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
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Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Georgian 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 Georgian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Georgian and Tibetan language. Georgian word for "Hello" is გამარჯობა (gamarjoba) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Georgian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Georgian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Georgian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Georgian 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 Georgian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Georgian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Georgian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.