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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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hajong
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bangladesh, India
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Rarhi
Where They Speak
China
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
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Indic
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
beng1280
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-u
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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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.
