Countries
China, Nepal
Haiti
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
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French Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Cap-Haitien
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Port-au-Prince
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Haitian Creole
Where They Speak
China
Cayes
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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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
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Haitian Creole
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
hait1244
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAC-cb
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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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.