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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
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
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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