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Tibetan and Greek


Countries

Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
3   
12
2   
13

National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Roman Empire   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
  • 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
Armenian   
Not Available   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
24   
6
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7   
4
5   
2

How Many Consonants
17   
7
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic, Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
αντίο (antío)   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Greece   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
2,800.00   
99+
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Griko   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Italy   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
50,000.00   
38
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Mariupol   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ukraine   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
25   
21
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.18 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
13.00 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
ελληνικά   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)   
tibétain   

German Name
Neugriechisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1500 BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Hellenic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Modern Greek   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
74   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
el   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ell   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
gre   
tib   

ISO 639 3
ell   
bod   

ISO 639 6
ells   
Not Available   

Glottocode
gree1276   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
56-AAA-a   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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All Greek and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Greek and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Greek and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Greek are spoken in different Greek Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Greek vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek, Griko. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Greek and Tibetan Speaking population

Greek and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Greek and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Greek and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Greek and Tibetan on Greek vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Greek and Tibetan Language Codes

Greek and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Greek and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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