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Hindi vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Hindi


Countries

Countries
Fiji, India   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
India   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania   
Asia   

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
  • In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
  • 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
Urdu   
Not Available   

Derived From
Sanskrit Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
44   
24
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
11   
8
5   
2

How Many Consonants
33   
23
30   
20

Scripts
Devanagari   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
खेद (Khēda)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Khariboli   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00   
2
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Marwari   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00   
3
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Bundeli   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Bundelkhand   
China   

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00   
4
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
380.00 million   
5
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
4.70 %   
5
Not Available   

Native Speakers
260.00 million   
4
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
120.00 million   
6
Not Available   

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

Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
hindi   
tibétain   

German Name
Hindi   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Hindustani people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
7th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Indic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Standard Hindi   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
5   
5
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
hi   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hin   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
hin   
tib   

ISO 639 3
hin   
bod   

ISO 639 6
hins   
Not Available   

Glottocode
hind1269   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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Hindi and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Hindi vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Hindi and Tibetan language. History of Hindi language states that this language originated in 7th Century 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 Hindi and Tibetan Language History.

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

Hindi vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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