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Tibetan and Yoruba


Yoruba and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Benin, Nigeria   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Nigeria   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Africa   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Yoruba Academy   

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.
  
  • One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
  • In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Owo and Itsekiri languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
12   
9

How Many Consonants
30   
20
17   
7

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
30 weeks   
9

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Ẹ n lẹ   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
e dupe   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Bawo ni o se wa   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Kasun layọ o   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ka a ale   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
e kaasan   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
e kaaro   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Jowo   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
binu   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
mo nifẹ rẹ   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
mo tọrọ gafara   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Itsekiri   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Nigeria   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
500,000.00   
34

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Ede   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Benin, Togo   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
800,000.00   
27

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Ulukwumi   

Where They Speak
China   
Nigeria   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
10,000.00   
34

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
20   
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
30.00 million   
36

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.42 %   
32

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
28.00 million   
29

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Yariba, Yooba   

French Name
tibétain   
yoruba   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Yoruba-Sprache   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Yoruba people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
4 BC   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Niger-Congo Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Western Sudanic   

Branch
Not Available   
Kwa   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Yorùbá   

Language Position
Not Available   
49   
36

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Yoruba Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
yo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
yor   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
yor   

ISO 639 3
bod   
yor   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
yoru1245   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Analytic, Isolating   

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

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Tibetan and Yoruba Speaking population

Tibetan and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Tibetan vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Yoruba Language Codes

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

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