Countries
China, Nepal
  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, India, Sierra Leone
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Bangladesh, India
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Bangla Academy, Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
  
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.
  
- Bengali language is the World's sweetest language.
- 21st February is celebrated as an International Mother Language day, which is based on Bengali language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Assamese and Oriya
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
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Bengali-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
হ্যালো (Hyālō)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
কেমন আছিস? (kêmon achhish?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
শুভরাত্রি (shubhoratri)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
শুভ সন্ধ্যা। (shubho shondha)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
ভাল বৈকাল (Bhāla Baikāla)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
সুপ্রভাত (shuprobhat)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
অনুগ্রহ করে (Anugraha karē)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
দুঃখিত (dukkhito)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
বিদায় (Bidāẏa)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
আমি আপনাকে ভালোবাসি (ami apnake bhalobashi)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
মাফ করবেন (Māpha karabēna)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Chakma
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Bangladesh, Burma, India
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Hajong
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Bangladesh, India
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Rarhi
  
Where They Speak
China
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
215.00 million
  
9
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
196.00 million
  
7
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
19.00 million
  
16
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
বাংলা (baɛṅlā)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Bangala, Bangla, Bangla-Bhasa
  
French Name
tibétain
  
bengali
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Bengali
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Bengalis (Bengali people)
  
Origin
c. 650
  
1000–1200 CE
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Abahatta, Old Bengali
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Bengali
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
bn
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
ben
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
ben
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
ben
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
beng1280
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
59-AAF-u
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Tibetan and Bengali 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 Bengali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Bengali language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Bengali word for "Thank You" is ধন্যবাদ (dhonnobad). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Bengali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Bengali Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Bengali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Bengali 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 Bengali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Bengali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Bengali time required is 44 weeks.