Countries
Nigeria
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
  
- 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
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Biko
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
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ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
igbo
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
igbo
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
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Glottocode
nucl1417
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
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Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
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Igbo 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 Igbo and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and Tibetan language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Igbo vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo 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 Igbo and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.