Countries
China, Nepal
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Germany
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Council for German Orthography
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.
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
Similar To
Not Available
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Albanian Languages
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
hallo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Danke
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Wie geht es dir?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
gute Nacht
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
guten Abend
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
guten Tag
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
guten Morgen
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
bitte
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Verzeihung
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Tschüs
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ich liebe dich
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Entschuldigung
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Swiss German
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Switzerland
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Swabian German
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Germany
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Texas German
Where They Speak
China
Texas
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Deutsch
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Deutsch, Tedesco
French Name
tibétain
allemand
German Name
Tibetisch
Deutsch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Germans
Origin
c. 650
6th Century AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed German
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
deus
Glottocode
tibe1272
high1287, uppe1397
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB–dl & -dm
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Tibetan and German 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 German greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and German language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or German word for "Thank You" is Danke. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and German Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs German Difficulty
The Tibetan vs German difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and German 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 German are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and German, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn German time required is 30 weeks.