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Tibetan and Greek


Greek and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Cyprus, European Union, Greece   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
3   
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Roman Empire   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Armenian   

Derived From
Not Available   
Latin   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
24   
6

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
7   
4

How Many Consonants
30   
20
17   
7

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Arabic, Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
γεια σας (geia sas)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
αντίο (antío)   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Cappadocian Greek   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Greece   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
2,800.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Griko   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Italy   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
50,000.00   
38

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Mariupol   

Where They Speak
China   
Ukraine   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
25   
21

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.18 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
13.00 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
ελληνικά   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic   

French Name
tibétain   
grec moderne (après 1453)   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Neugriechisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[eliniˈka]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Greeks or Hellenes   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1500 BC   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Hellenic   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Greek   

Language Position
Not Available   
74   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Greek Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
el   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
ell   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
gre   

ISO 639 3
bod   
ell   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
ells   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
gree1276   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
56-AAA-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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All Tibetan and Greek Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Greek dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Greek language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Greek Dialects are spoken in different Greek speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Greek Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek , Griko. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Greek Speaking population

Tibetan and Greek speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Greek languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Greek Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Greek on Tibetan vs Greek where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Greek Language Codes

Tibetan and Greek language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Greek Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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