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Tibetan vs Haitian Creole


Haitian Creole vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Haiti  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Haiti  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Central America, North America  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Cuba  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)  

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.
  
  • In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
  • In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
  

Similar To
Not Available  
French Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
7  
4

How Many Consonants
30  
20
20  
10

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
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Bonjou  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Mèsi  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Kijan ou yé?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Bon nwit  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Bonswa  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Bon apre-midi  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Bon apre-midi  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Souple  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Dezole  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Babay  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Mwen renmen w  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Eskize m  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Northern Haitian Creole  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Cap-Haitien  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Central Haitian Creole  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Port-au-Prince  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Southern Haitian Creole  

Where They Speak
China  
Cayes  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
9.60 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.15 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
9.60 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Kreyòl ayisyen  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole  

French Name
tibétain  
haïtien; créole haïtien  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[kɣejɔl]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Haitians  

History

Origin
c. 650  
17th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European 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  
Haitian Creole  

Language Position
Not Available  
99  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ht  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
hat  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
hat  

ISO 639 3
bod  
hat  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
hait1244  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
51-AAC-cb  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Haitian Creole Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Haitian Creole language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Haitian Creole language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Haitian Creole language states that this language originated in 17th 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 Haitian Creole Language History.

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Tibetan and Haitian Creole 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 Haitian Creole greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Haitian Creole language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Haitian Creole word for "Thank You" is Mèsi. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Haitian Creole Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Haitian Creole Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Haitian Creole difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Haitian Creole 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 Haitian Creole are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Haitian Creole, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Haitian Creole time required is 24 weeks.

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