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Tibetan vs Amharic


Amharic vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Ethiopia  

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  
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.
  
  • Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
  • Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Amharic-1.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
7  
4

How Many Consonants
30  
20
31  
21

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Ethiopic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Selam  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
amesege'nallo'  

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Dehna dur  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
melkam meshe't  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
i'ndemin walu  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
i'ndemin adäru  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
i'bakwon  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
aznallehu  

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

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

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
yiqirta  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Gondar  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Gondar  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Gojjami  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Ethiopia  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Showa  

Where They Speak
China  
Ethiopia  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
5  
5

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.37 %  
35

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
25.00 million  
32

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
10.00 million  
23

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Not Available  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian  

French Name
tibétain  
amharique  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Amharisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[amarɨɲɲa]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Amharas  

History

Origin
c. 650  
13th century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Afro-Asiatic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Semitic  

Branch
Not Available  
Ethiopic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Ge'ez  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Amharic  

Language Position
Not Available  
55  
40

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Amharic  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
am  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
amh  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
amh  

ISO 639 3
bod  
amh  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
amha1245  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
12-ACB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional  

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Tibetan and Amharic Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Amharic language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Amharic language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Amharic language states that this language originated in 13th century. 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 Amharic Language History.

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Tibetan and Amharic 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 Amharic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Amharic language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Amharic word for "Thank You" is amesege'nallo'. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Amharic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Amharic Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Amharic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Amharic 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 Amharic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Amharic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Amharic time required is 44 weeks.

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