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Telugu vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Telugu


Countries

Countries
Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
2   
13

National Language
Andra Pradesh, India   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Karnataka   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world that has every single word that ends with a vowel sound. Telugu language is called "Italian of the East".
  • Telugu is one of the oldest language in India which is 2,400 years old.
  
  • 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
Tamil   
Not Available   

Derived From
Sanskrit Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
60   
35
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
19   
16
5   
2

How Many Consonants
41   
30
30   
20

Scripts
Telugu Script   
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
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
హలో (Halō)   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
శుభోదయం (Śubhōdayaṁ)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
బై (Bai)   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Waddar   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
170,000.00   
39
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Chenchu   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
26,000.00   
99+
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Manna-Dora   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu   
China   

How Many People Speak
30,000.00   
32
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
38   
28
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
80.00 million   
20
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.15 %   
15
Not Available   

Native Speakers
75.00 million   
14
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million   
29
Not Available   

Native Name
తెలుగు (telugu)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
télougou   
tibétain   

German Name
Telugu-Sprache   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Telugu people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
c. 575   
c. 650   

Language Family
Dravidian Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Early Telugu epigraphy   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Telugu   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
15   
14
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
te   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
tel   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
tel   
tib   

ISO 639 3
tel   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
telu1262   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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Telugu and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Telugu vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Telugu and Tibetan language. History of Telugu language states that this language originated in c. 575 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 Telugu and Tibetan Language History.

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

Telugu vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Telugu vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Telugu 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 Telugu and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Telugu and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Telugu is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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