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Tibetan and Irish


Irish and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
European Union, Ireland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Ireland  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Ireland  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
United Kingdom  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Foras na Gaeilge  

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.
  
  • In Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
  • There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Irish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
18  
1

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
13  
3

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Dia dhuit  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Go raibh maith agat  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Conas atá tú ?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Oíche mhaith  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Tráthnóna maith duit  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Tráthnóna maith duit  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Dia dhuit ar maidin  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
le do thoil  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Tá brón orm  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Is breá liom thú  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Gabh mo leithscéal  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Connacht Irish  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Connacht  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Munster Irish  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Munster  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Ulster Irish  

Where They Speak
China  
Ulster  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.14 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
1.65 million  
35

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish  

French Name
tibétain  
irlandais moyen  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Mittelirisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Irish people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 750  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Celtic  

Branch
Not Available  
Goidelic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Irish Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ga  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
gle  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
gle  

ISO 639 3
bod  
gle  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
iris1253  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
50-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Verb-Subject-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional  

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All Tibetan and Irish 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 Irish dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Irish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Irish Dialects are spoken in different Irish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Irish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Irish dialects include: Connacht Irish , Munster Irish. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Irish Speaking population

Tibetan and Irish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Irish languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Irish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Irish language is Not Available. 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 Irish on Tibetan vs Irish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Irish Language Codes

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

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