Countries
China, Nepal
Cyprus, European Union, Greece
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Roman Empire
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)
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.
- Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
- The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
Similar To
Not Available
Armenian
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
γεια σας (geia sas)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
αντίο (antío)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Cappadocian Greek
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Greece
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Griko
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Italy
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Mariupol
Where They Speak
China
Ukraine
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ελληνικά
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic
French Name
tibétain
grec moderne (après 1453)
German Name
Tibetisch
Neugriechisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[eliniˈka]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Greeks or Hellenes
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Hellenic
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Greek
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Greek Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
ells
Glottocode
tibe1272
gree1276
Linguasphere
No data Available
56-AAA-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Tibetan and Greek 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 Greek greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Greek language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Greek word for "Thank You" is ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Greek Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Greek Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Greek difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Greek 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 Greek are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Greek, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Greek time required is 44 weeks.