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Hebrew vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Hebrew


Countries

Countries
Israel   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Israel   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Israel   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Poland   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Academy of the Hebrew Language   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
  • The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
  
  • 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
Arabic and Aramaic languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Aramaic Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
22   
4
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
0   
5   
2

How Many Consonants
22   
12
30   
20

Scripts
Hebrew   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, 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
שלום (Shalom)   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
תודה (Toda)   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
לילה טוב (Laila tov)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
ערב טוב (Erev tov)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
בבקשה (bevekshah)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
סליחה! (Slicha)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
להתראות (Lehitraot)   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
בבקשה!   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Ashkenazi Hebrew   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Israel   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Israel   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
7   
7
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
4.40 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.60 million   
27
Not Available   

Native Name
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Israeli, Ivrit   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
hébreu   
tibétain   

German Name
Hebräisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1000 BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Semitic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Canaanitic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Modern Hebrew   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
23   
19
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
he   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
heb   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
heb   
tib   

ISO 639 3
heb   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
hebr1246   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
12-AAB-a   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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Hebrew and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Hebrew vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Hebrew and Tibetan language. History of Hebrew language states that this language originated in 1000 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 Hebrew and Tibetan Language History.

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Hebrew 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 Hebrew and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hebrew and Tibetan language. Hebrew word for "Hello" is שלום (Shalom) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Hebrew Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Hebrew vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Hebrew vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hebrew 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 Hebrew and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hebrew and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hebrew is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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