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Tibetan and Irish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Ireland   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Ireland   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Ireland   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
United Kingdom   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Foras na Gaeilge   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
  • There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
18   
1
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
13   
3
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5   
4
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks   
10
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Dia dhuit   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Go raibh maith agat   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Conas atá tú ?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Oíche mhaith   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Tráthnóna maith duit   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Tráthnóna maith duit   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Dia dhuit ar maidin   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
le do thoil   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Tá brón orm   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
Is breá liom thú   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Gabh mo leithscéal   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Connacht Irish   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Connacht   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
Munster Irish   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Munster   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Ulster Irish   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Ulster   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
4   
4
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.14 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.65 million   
35
Not Available   

Native Name
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
irlandais moyen   
tibétain   

German Name
Mittelirisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Irish people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
c. 750   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Celtic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Goidelic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Irish Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ga   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
gle   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
gle   
tib   

ISO 639 3
gle   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
iris1253   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
50-AAA   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional   
Not Available   

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All Irish and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Irish and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Irish and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Irish are spoken in different Irish Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Irish vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Irish dialects include: Connacht Irish, Munster Irish. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Irish and Tibetan Speaking population

Irish and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Irish and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Irish and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Irish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Irish and Tibetan on Irish vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Irish and Tibetan Language Codes

Irish and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Irish and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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