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Sanskrit vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Sanskrit


Countries

Countries
India  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
India  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Not Available  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
  • Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
  
  • 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
Old German Language  
Not Available  

Derived From
Prakrit Language  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
52  
31
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
16  
13
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
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks  
5
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
कृपया (kripayā)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Not present  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Not present  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,400,000.00  
23

Dialect 3
Not present  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Not Available  
China  

How Many People Speak
Not Available  
1,800,000.00  
16

Total No. Of Dialects
0  
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
14.10 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
14.10 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Not Available  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
sanskrit  
tibétain  

German Name
Sanskrit  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
Not Available  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
2000 B.C.  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Indic  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Sanskrit  
Standard Tibetan  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
sa  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
san  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
san  
tib  

ISO 639 3
san  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
sans1269  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Ancient  
Not Available  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
Not Available  

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Sanskrit and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Sanskrit vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Sanskrit and Tibetan language. History of Sanskrit language states that this language originated in 2000 B.C. 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 Sanskrit and Tibetan Language History.

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Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Sanskrit and Tibetan language. Sanskrit word for "Hello" is नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Sanskrit Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Sanskrit vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Sanskrit vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Sanskrit and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Sanskrit is 20 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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