Tibetan vs Filipino
Countries
China, Nepal
Philippines
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
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.
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
Similar To
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Tagalog Language
Derived From
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Spanish Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kumusta
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Salamat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumusta
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
magandang gabi
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Magandang gabi
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Magandang hapon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Magandang umaga
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mangyaring
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pinagsisisihan
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Paalam
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Mahal kita
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
patawarin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Bikol
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Philippines
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hiligaynon
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Philippines
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Waray
Where They Speak
China
Philippines
Speaking Population
Not Available
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Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
filipino
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Pilipino
French Name
tibétain
filipino; pilipino
German Name
Tibetisch
Pilipino
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
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Origin
c. 650
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Filipino
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No Data Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
fili1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
No Data Available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Filipino Language History
Comparison of Tibetan vs Filipino language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Filipino language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Filipino language states that this language originated in 16th 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 Filipino Language History.
Tibetan and Filipino 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 Filipino greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Filipino language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Filipino word for "Thank You" is Salamat. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Filipino Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Filipino Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Filipino difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Filipino 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 Filipino are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Filipino, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Filipino time required is 44 weeks.
