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Tibetan vs Italian


Italian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
7   
8

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)   

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.
  
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
French and Portuguese Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Latin   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
21   
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
16   
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
ciao   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
grazie   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Come stai?   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
buonanotte   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
buonasera   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
buon pomeriggio   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
buongiorno   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Per Favore   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
scusate   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
arrivederci   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Ti amo   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Scusami   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Romanesco   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Lazio   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
3,000,000.00   
21

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Central Italian   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
5,000,000.00   
14

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Tuscan   

Where They Speak
China   
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
15   
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
78.00 million   
21

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.90 %   
22

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
64.00 million   
18

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
14.00 million   
20

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Italiano   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Italiano   

French Name
tibétain   
italien   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Italienisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[itaˈljaːno]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Italians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
960 BC   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Romance   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Italian   

Language Position
Not Available   
27   
23

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
it   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
ita   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
ita   

ISO 639 3
bod   
ita   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
itas   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
ital1282   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
51-AAA-q   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Italian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Italian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Italian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Italian language states that this language originated in 960 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 Italian Language History.

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Tibetan and Italian 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 Italian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Italian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Italian word for "Thank You" is grazie. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Italian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Italian Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Italian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Italian 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 Italian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Italian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Italian time required is 24 weeks.

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