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Tibetan vs Chewa


Chewa vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Malawi, Zimbabwe  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Zambia  

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.
  
  • Chewa is one of the 55 languages featured on the Voyager spacecraft.
  • Most widely known language of Malawi is Chewa.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Zulu language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
31  
13

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
18  
8

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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)  
Moni  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Zikomo  

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Usiku wabwino  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Madzulo abwino  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Masana abwino  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
M'mawa wabwino  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Chonde  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
pepani  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
anatsanzikana  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Ndimakukondani  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Pepani  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Kasungu  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Malawi, Zambia  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Kikamtunda  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Malawi, Zambia  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Kimaravi  

Where They Speak
China  
Malawi, Zambia  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
5  
5

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.17 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
12.00 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Nyanja  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Chichewa, Chinyanja, Nyanja, Nyanja-Chewa  

French Name
tibétain  
chichewa; chewa; nyanja  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Nyanja-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Chewa people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
15th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Benue-Congo  

Branch
Not Available  
Bantu  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Chewa  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ny  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
nya  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
nya  

ISO 639 3
bod  
nya  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
nyan1308  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
99-AUS-xaa – xag  

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 Chewa Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Chewa language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Chewa language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Chewa language states that this language originated in 15th Century. 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 Chewa Language History.

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Tibetan and Chewa 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 Chewa greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Chewa language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Chewa word for "Thank You" is Zikomo. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Chewa Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Chewa Difficulty

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

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