Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Ireland
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ireland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Ireland
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
United Kingdom
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Foras na Gaeilge
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 Irish language, there are no exact words for "yes" or "no".
- There are different set of numbers for counting humans and another set for counting non-humans in Irish Language.
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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
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Dia dhuit
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Go raibh maith agat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Conas atá tú ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Oíche mhaith
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tráthnóna maith duit
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Dia dhuit ar maidin
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
le do thoil
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Tá brón orm
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Slán
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Is breá liom thú
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Gabh mo leithscéal
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Connacht Irish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Connacht
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Munster Irish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Munster
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ulster Irish
Where They Speak
China
Ulster
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)
Gaeilge (na hÉireann) / An Ghaeilge
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Erse, Gaeilge, Gaelic Irish
French Name
tibétain
irlandais moyen
German Name
Tibetisch
Mittelirisch
Pronunciation
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[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Irish people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Celtic
Branch
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Goidelic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Primitive Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Classical Irish, Irish
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
An Caighdeán Oifigiúil
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Irish Sign Language
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
iris1253
Linguasphere
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50-AAA
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
Tibetan and Irish 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 Irish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Irish language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Irish word for "Thank You" is Go raibh maith agat. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Irish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Irish Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Irish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Irish 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 Irish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Irish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Irish time required is 36 weeks.