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Latvian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Latvian


Countries

Countries
European Union, Latvia  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Latvia  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
  • The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
  
  • 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
Lithuanian Language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33  
15
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
5  
2

How Many Consonants
24  
14
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
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
Labvakar  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Labdien  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

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

Please
lūdzu  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Piedodiet!  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Es tevi mīlu  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Livonian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Latvia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Middle Latvian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Latvia  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
High Latvian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
France, Latvia  
China  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.75 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.75 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
latviešu valoda  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

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

French Name
letton  
tibétain  

German Name
Lettisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1530  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Baltic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Latvian  
Standard Tibetan  

Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
lv  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lav  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
lav  
tib  

ISO 639 3
lav  
bod  

ISO 639 6
not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
latv1249  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
54-AAB-a  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Not Available  

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Latvian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Latvian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Latvian and Tibetan language. History of Latvian language states that this language originated in 1530 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 Latvian and Tibetan Language History.

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

Latvian vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Latvian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian 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 Latvian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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