Countries
India, Nepal
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Nepal
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Republic of Brazil
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
People's Republic of China
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Language Academy of Nepal
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese 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
Hindi
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Good afternoon
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
कृपया
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
नमस्ते (namaste)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Doteli
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Nepal
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
30.00 million
  
36
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million
  
29
Not Available
  
Native Name
नेपाली (nēpālī)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
népalais
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Nepali
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
19 BC
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Nepali
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Signed Nepali
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ne
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nep
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
nep
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
npi
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nepa1254
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
12
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Not Available
  
Nepali 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 Nepali and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Nepali and Tibetan language. Nepali word for "Hello" is नमस्ते (namaste) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Nepali Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Nepali vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Nepali vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Nepali 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 Nepali and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Nepali and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Nepali is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.