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
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets in
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Devanagari
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Bajhangi
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
India, Nepal
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Baitadeli
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nepal
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
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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 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
nepa1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
12
No data Available
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.
