Countries
European Union, Ireland
China, Nepal
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.
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Connacht Irish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Connacht
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Munster Irish
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Munster
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Ulster Irish
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ulster
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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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]
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Ethnicity
Irish people
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Celtic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Goidelic
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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
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
iris1253
tibe1272
Linguasphere
50-AAA
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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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.