Countries
China, Nepal
Ghana, Ivory coast
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ghana
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
Benin, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Akan Orthography 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.
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
Similar To
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Derived From
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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)
ete-sen
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
meda ase
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
wo ho te sɛn?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
maadwo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
maadwo
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
maaha
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
maakye
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
wae
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Kafra
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Me doכ wo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
mepa wo kyɛw
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Asante
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Ghana
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Akuapem
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Ghana
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Fante
Where They Speak
China
Ghana
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Akan
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
akan
German Name
Tibetisch
Akan-Sprache
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Akan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Akan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
akan1251
Linguasphere
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Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Akan 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 Akan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Akan language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Akan word for "Thank You" is meda ase. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Akan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Akan Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Akan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Akan 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 Akan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Akan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Akan time required is 44 weeks.