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Italian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Italian


Countries

Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
7   
8
2   
13

National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
  • 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
French and Portuguese Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
21   
3
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
16   
6
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
ciao   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
grazie   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

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

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

Good Evening
buonasera   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
buongiorno   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Per Favore   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
scusate   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
Ti amo   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Scusami   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Romanesco   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Lazio   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00   
21
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Central Italian   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00   
14
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Tuscan   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
15   
14
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
78.00 million   
21
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.90 %   
22
Not Available   

Native Speakers
64.00 million   
18
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
14.00 million   
20
Not Available   

Native Name
Italiano   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Italiano   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
italien   
tibétain   

German Name
Italienisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Italians   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
960 BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Italian   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
27   
23
Not Available   

Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
it   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ita   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
ita   
tib   

ISO 639 3
ita   
bod   

ISO 639 6
itas   
Not Available   

Glottocode
ital1282   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-q   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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Italian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Italian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Italian and Tibetan language. History of Italian language states that this language originated in 960 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 Italian and Tibetan Language History.

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

Italian vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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