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Tibetan and Korean


Korean and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
5  
10

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
North Korea, South Korea  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
The National Institute of the Korean Language  

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.
  
  • Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
  • Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Chinese and Japanese languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
40  
21

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
21  
18

How Many Consonants
30  
20
19  
9

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Hangul  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
88 weeks  
13

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
하십시오 (hasibsio)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Jeju  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
South Korea  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
10,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Gyeongsang  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
South Korea  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
10,000,000.00  
9

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Hamgyŏng  

Where They Speak
China  
China, North Korea  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
77.00 million  
22

Speaking Population
Not Available  
1.14 %  
16

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
77.00 million  
12

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
한국어 (조선말)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh  

French Name
tibétain  
coréen  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Koreanisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Koreans  

History

Origin
c. 650  
Before 1st century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Koreanic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard  

Language Position
Not Available  
12  
11

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Korean Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ko  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
kor  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
kor  

ISO 639 3
bod  
Kor  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
kore1280  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
45-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Agglutinative  

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

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Tibetan and Korean Speaking population

Tibetan and Korean speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Korean languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Korean Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Korean language is 1.14 %. 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 Korean on Tibetan vs Korean where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Korean Language Codes

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

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