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Tibetan vs Filipino


Filipino vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Philippines   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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

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

Alphabets
35   
17
28   
10

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
23   
13

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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   

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
8   
8

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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   

Code

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   

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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.

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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.

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