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Tibetan vs Bodo


Bodo vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Assam, India  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Assam, India  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not Available  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not Available  

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.
  
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
  

Similar To
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Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language  

Derived From
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Bodo-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
45  
25

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
20  
17

How Many Consonants
30  
20
25  
15

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Devanagari  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
Not Available  

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
Not Available  

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Not Available  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Not Available  

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Not Available  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Not Available  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
अननानै (Onnanwi)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Not Available  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Not Available  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Not Available  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect  

Where They Speak
China  
Assam, India, Nepal  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.60 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
बड़ो (boṛo)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci  

French Name
tibétain  
Not Available  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Not Available  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[bɔɽo]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1913  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Not Available  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Not Available  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
Not Available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
Not Available  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
Not Available  

ISO 639 3
bod  
brx  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
bodo1269  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
Not Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Bodo Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Bodo language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Bodo language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Bodo language states that this language originated in 1913. 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 Bodo Language History.

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Tibetan and Bodo 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 Bodo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Bodo language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Bodo word for "Thank You" is Not Available. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Bodo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Bodo Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Bodo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Bodo 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 Bodo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Bodo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Bodo time required is Not Available.

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