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Tibetan vs Esperanto


Esperanto vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
East Asia, European Union, South America  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
East Asia, European Union  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe, South America  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Akademio de Esperanto  

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.
  
  • The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
  • Esperanto is an artificial international language.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
27  
17

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
6 weeks  
3

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Halo  

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Bonan nokton  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Bonan vesperon  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Bonan posttagmezon  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Bonan matenon  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Mi petas  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Mi bedaŭras!  

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Not present  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Not present  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
China  
Not present  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
0  

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
2.00 million  
34

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia  

French Name
tibétain  
espéranto  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Esperanto  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[espeˈranto]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Not Available  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1887  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Proto-Esperanto  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Esperanto  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signuno  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
eo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
epo  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
epo  

ISO 639 3
bod  
epo  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
espe1235  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
51-AAB-da  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Constructed  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Agglutinative  

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Tibetan and Esperanto Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Esperanto language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Esperanto language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Esperanto language states that this language originated in 1887. 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 Esperanto Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Esperanto Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Esperanto difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Esperanto 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 Esperanto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Esperanto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Esperanto time required is 6 weeks.

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