Countries
European Union, Lithuania
China, Nepal
National Language
Lithuania
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Poland
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
- 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
Latvian
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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
Sveiki
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ačiū
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kaip sekasi?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Labanakt
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Labas vakaras
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Laba diena
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Labas rytas
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Prašom
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
atsiprašau
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Ate
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Aš myliu tave
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Atsiprašau
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Samogitian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Aukštaitian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Curonian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Lithuania
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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Native Name
lietuvių kalba
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
lituanien
tibétain
German Name
Litauisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Lithuanians
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Baltic
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Lithuanian
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Lithuanian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
lith1251
tibe1272
Linguasphere
54-AAA-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Lithuanian and Tibetan language. Lithuanian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Lithuanian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Lithuanian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Lithuanian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Lithuanian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Lithuanian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.