Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
China, Nepal
National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Kazakh language agency
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
- 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
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Western Kazakh
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
kazakh
tibétain
German Name
Kasachisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
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Ethnicity
Kazahks
tibetan people
Origin
17th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kazakh
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
kaza1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Kazakh 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 Kazakh and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kazakh and Tibetan language. Kazakh word for "Hello" is Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Kazakh Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kazakh vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Kazakh vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kazakh 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 Kazakh and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kazakh and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kazakh is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.