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Tibetan vs German


German vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
7   
8

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

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

Alphabets
35   
17
26   
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
10   
7

How Many Consonants
30   
20
9   
1

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
30 weeks   
9

Greetings

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Swiss German   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Switzerland   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
4,500,000.00   
18

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Swabian German   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Germany   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
820,000.00   
26

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Texas German   

Where They Speak
China   
Texas   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
6,000.00   
35

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
28   
23

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
229.00 million   
8

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.39 %   
12

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
101.00 million   
10

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
128.00 million   
5

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   

History

Origin
c. 650   
6th Century AD   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Germanic   

Branch
Not Available   
Western   

Language Forms
  
  

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   
9   
9

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed German   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
de   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
deu   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
ger   

ISO 639 3
bod   
deu   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
deus   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
high1287, uppe1397   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
52-ACB–dl & -dm   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Tibetan and German Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs German language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and German language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD. 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 German Language History.

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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.

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