Countries
China, Nepal
Hong Kong, Macau
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Hawaii
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
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Chinese Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
您好
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
谢谢
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
你好吗？
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
晚安
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
下午好
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
早上好
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
请
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
遗憾
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
再见
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
我爱你
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
原谅我
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
China
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
tibétain
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German Name
Tibetisch
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Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
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Origin
c. 650
17th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
Standard Cantonese
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
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ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
bod
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ISO 639 2/B
tib
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ISO 639 3
bod
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Cantonese 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 Cantonese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Cantonese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Cantonese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Cantonese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Cantonese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Cantonese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Cantonese 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 Cantonese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Cantonese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Cantonese time required is 88 weeks.