Countries
China, Nepal
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
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
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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
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Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
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Caucasian languages
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Abkhaz-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Language Levels
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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.
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Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
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Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
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Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
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Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bzyb
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Sadz
Where They Speak
China
Turkey
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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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
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Abkhaz people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Abkhaz
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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abks
Glottocode
tibe1272
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
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Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
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.