Countries
China, Nepal
Nigeria
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Gambia, Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nigeria
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
Similar To
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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)
sannu
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
gode ku
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
yaya dai
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
mai kyau dare
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
barka da yamma
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
barka da rana
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
mai kyau safe
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Don Allah
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
yi hakuri
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
sai anjima
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ina son ku
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
gafara dai
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Gaananci
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Ghana
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kurhwayanci
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Niger
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Daragaram
Where They Speak
China
Niger
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
French Name
tibétain
haoussa
German Name
Tibetisch
Haussa-Sprache
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hausa–Fulani people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Chadic
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Hausa
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
haus1257
Linguasphere
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19-HAA-b
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
Tibetan and Hausa 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 Hausa greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Hausa language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Hausa word for "Thank You" is gode ku. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Hausa Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Hausa Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Hausa difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Hausa 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 Hausa are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Hausa, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Hausa time required is 44 weeks.