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Tibetan vs Irish


Irish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
European Union, Ireland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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.
  

Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Irish-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
18  
1

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
13  
3

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
36 weeks  
10

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Connacht Irish  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Connacht  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Munster Irish  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Munster  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Ulster Irish  

Where They Speak
China  
Ulster  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
1.79 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
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Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.14 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
1.65 million  
35

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
Not Available  
[ˈɡeːlʲɟə]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Irish people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 750  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Celtic  

Branch
Not Available  
Goidelic  

Language Forms
  
  

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
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ga  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
gle  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
gle  

ISO 639 3
bod  
gle  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
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Glottocode
tibe1272  
iris1253  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
50-AAA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Verb-Subject-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional  

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Tibetan and Irish Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Irish language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Irish language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Irish language states that this language originated in c. 750. 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 Irish Language History.

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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.

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