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
Not Available
  
Tagalog Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Spanish Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Filipino-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Hiligaynon
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
8,200,000.00
  
11
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Waray
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Philippines
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
2,600,000.00
  
13
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
90.00 million
  
17
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
45.00 million
  
23
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
45.00 million
  
13
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
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 650
  
16th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Austronesian Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
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 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
fil
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
fil
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
fil
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
fili1244
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No Data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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.