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Irish vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs 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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Irish and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Irish vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Irish and Tibetan language. History of Irish language states that this language originated in c. 750 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 Irish and Tibetan Language History.

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

Irish vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Irish vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Irish 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 Irish and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Irish and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Irish is 36 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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