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Igbo vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Igbo


Countries

Countries
Nigeria   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
36   
18
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
5   
2

How Many Consonants
28   
18
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks   
12
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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
Not Available   
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།   

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
20   
18
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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   

History

Origin
30th Century BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Kwa   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Standard Igbo   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
57   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

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   
Not Available   

Glottocode
nucl1417   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Not Available   

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Igbo and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Igbo vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Igbo and Tibetan language. History of Igbo language states that this language originated in 30th Century 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 Igbo and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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