Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
China, Nepal
National Language
Russia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
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Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Cyrillic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Olonets
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Olonets
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Novgorod
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Русский
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Russki
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
russe
tibétain
German Name
Russisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
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Ethnicity
Russians
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Eastern
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
russ1263
tibe1272
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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Russian 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 Russian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Tibetan language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Russian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.