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Nepali vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Nepali


Countries

Countries
India, Nepal   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
48   
28
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
5   
2

How Many Consonants
36   
26
30   
20

Scripts
Devanagari   
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
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།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doteli   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Nepal   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
790,000.00   
30
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

Total No. Of Dialects
12   
12
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
30.00 million   
36
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.25 %   
99+
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   

History

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
59   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Nepali   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage   
Not Available   

Code

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   

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Nepali and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Nepali vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Nepali and Tibetan language. History of Nepali language states that this language originated in 19 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 Nepali and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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