Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Not Available
Dutch Language
Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
hallo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Dankie
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
goeie nag
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Goeie middag
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
goeie more
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
asseblief
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
jammer
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Not Available
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Verskoon my
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
China
Namibia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cape Dutch
French Name
tibétain
afrikaans
German Name
Tibetisch
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Afrikaners
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Afrikaans
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
Glottocode
tibe1272
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-ba
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic
Tibetan and Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Afrikaans language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Afrikaans word for "Thank You" is Dankie. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Afrikaans Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Afrikaans Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Afrikaans difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Afrikaans 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 Afrikaans are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Afrikaans, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Afrikaans time required is 24 weeks.