Countries
China, Nepal
Andorra, Balearic Islands, Catalonia, Latin Union, Spain, Valencian Community
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Andorra, France, Italy, Spain
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Spain
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Aragon, France, Italy, Spain
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, National Languages Committee
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.
- Catalan is 6th most largely spoken Romance language.
- Catalan went through a golden age in low middle ages, reaching a peak of maturity and cultural richness.
Similar To
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Spanish Language, Occitan Language, Italian Language, French Language
Derived From
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Latin
Alphabets in
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Catalan-Alpahabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hola
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Gràcies
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Com estàs?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Bona nit
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bona nit
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Bona tarda
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bon dia
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sisplau
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Perdó!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Adéu
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
T'estimo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dispensi!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Caló
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
France, Portugal, Spain
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Valencian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Spain
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ribagorçan
Where They Speak
China
Spain
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
Not Available
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Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
català
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Català, Catalán, Catalan-Valencian-Balear, Catalonian, Valencian
French Name
tibétain
catalan; valencien
German Name
Tibetisch
Katalanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[kətəˈɫa] (EC) ~ [kataˈɫa] (WC)
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Catalan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Catalan
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Catalan, Standard Valencian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Catalan
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1289
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-e
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Catalan 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 Catalan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Catalan language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Catalan word for "Thank You" is Gràcies. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Catalan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Catalan Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Catalan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Catalan 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 Catalan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Catalan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Catalan time required is 24 weeks.