Countries
India
China, Nepal
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Language Levels
Not Available
Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
Henda ho
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Adi Johar
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Boge Ninda
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
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ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
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thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
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ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
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ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
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ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
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དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Mahali
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Not present
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Not Available
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
santal
tibétain
German Name
Santali
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
tibetan people
Origin
20th century
c. 650
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
sant1410
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Santali 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 Santali and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Santali and Tibetan language. Santali word for "Hello" is Henda ho or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Santali Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Santali vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Santali vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Santali 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 Santali and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Santali and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Santali is Not Available while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.