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Tibetan vs Abkhaz


Abkhaz vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Abkhazia  

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

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Not Available  

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.
  
  • Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
  • Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Adyghe language, Abaza language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Caucasian languages  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
62  
36

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
2  
1

How Many Consonants
30  
20
60  
36

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Cyrillic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
Not Available  

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
27 weeks  
8

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)  

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Not Available  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Not Available  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Not available  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Not available  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Bzyb  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Abkhazia  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Abzhywa  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Caucasus  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Sadz  

Where They Speak
China  
Turkey  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.13 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Abxazo, Abkhazian  

French Name
tibétain  
abkhaze  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Abchasisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Abkhaz people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 1650  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Northwest Caucasian  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Abkhaz  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ab  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
abk  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
abk  

ISO 639 3
bod  
abk  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
abks  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
abkh1244  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Historical  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Agglutinative  

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Tibetan and Abkhaz Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Abkhaz language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Abkhaz language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Abkhaz language states that this language originated in c. 1650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Abkhaz Language History.

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Tibetan and Abkhaz Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Abkhaz greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Abkhaz language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Abkhaz word for "Thank You" is Иҭабуп (It̢abup). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Abkhaz Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Abkhaz Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Abkhaz difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Abkhaz Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Abkhaz are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Abkhaz, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Abkhaz time required is 27 weeks.

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