Countries
Nigeria
China, Nepal
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
sannu
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
gode ku
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
yaya dai
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
mai kyau dare
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
barka da yamma
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Don Allah
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
yi hakuri
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
sai anjima
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ina son ku
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
gafara dai
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Niger
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Niger
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
haoussa
tibétain
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
tibetan people
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
haus1257
tibe1272
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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Hausa 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 Hausa and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hausa and Tibetan language. Hausa word for "Hello" is sannu or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Hausa Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hausa vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Hausa vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hausa 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 Hausa and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hausa and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hausa is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.