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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  
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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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