Countries
China, Nepal
China, Kazakhstan, Russia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Gambia, Kazakhstan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Kazakh language agency
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.
- The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
- Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
Similar To
Not Available
Turkish and Uzbek Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Kazakh-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
өтінемін (ötinemin)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northeastern Kazakh
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Kazakhstan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Southern Kazakh
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Kazakhstan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Western Kazakh
Where They Speak
China
Kazakhstan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq
French Name
tibétain
kazakh
German Name
Tibetisch
Kasachisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kazahks
Origin
c. 650
17th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Turkic
Branch
Not Available
Northwestern (Kipchak)
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kazakh
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
kaza1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
Tibetan and Kazakh 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 Kazakh greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Kazakh language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Kazakh word for "Thank You" is Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Kazakh Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Kazakh Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Kazakh difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kazakh 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 Kazakh are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kazakh, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kazakh time required is 44 weeks.