Tibetan vs Igbo
Countries
China, Nepal
Nigeria
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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 Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
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)
kedụ
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
dalụ
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Biko
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndo
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
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I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Enuani
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Nigeria
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
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How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
igbo
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ibo
French Name
tibétain
igbo
German Name
Tibetisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
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[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Igbo people
Origin
c. 650
30th Century BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Kwa
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Igbo
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
nucl1417
Linguasphere
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Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Igbo Language History
Comparison of Tibetan vs Igbo language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Igbo language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Igbo language states that this language originated in 30th Century BC. 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 Igbo Language History.
Tibetan and Igbo 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 Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Igbo language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Igbo Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Igbo 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 Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.