Countries
China, Nepal
Israel
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Poland
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of the Hebrew Language
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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Not Available
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
Not Available
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Hebrew-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Hebrew
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Israel
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
China
Israel
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
tibétain
hébreu
German Name
Tibetisch
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
Canaanitic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
hebr1246
Linguasphere
No data Available
12-AAB-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Tibetan and Hebrew 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 Hebrew greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Hebrew language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Hebrew word for "Thank You" is תודה (Toda). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Hebrew Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Hebrew Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Hebrew difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Hebrew 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 Hebrew are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Hebrew, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Hebrew time required is 44 weeks.
