Countries
China, Nepal
Japan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Japan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Pacific
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Palau
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
Similar To
Not Available
Korean Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Kana
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ありがとう (Arigatō)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
おはよう (Ohayō)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
さようなら (Sayōnara)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
すみません (Sumimasen)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Sanuki
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kagawa
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hakata
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Fukuoka
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kansai
Where They Speak
China
kansai
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
日本語
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Not Available
French Name
tibétain
japonais
German Name
Tibetisch
Japanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Japanese (Yamato)
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Japanese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Japanese
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1643
Linguasphere
No data Available
45-CAA-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Tibetan and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Japanese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Japanese word for "Thank You" is ありがとう (Arigatō). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Japanese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Japanese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Japanese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Japanese 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 Japanese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Japanese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Japanese time required is 88 weeks.