Countries
China, Nepal
Burma
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Burundi, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
- Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
Similar To
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Kinyarwanda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Time Taken to Learn
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Bwakeye
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Urakoze
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Urakomeye?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ijoro ryiza
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Mwiriwe
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Mwiriwe
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Mwaramutse
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndagusavye
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
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Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
N’agasaga
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
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Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
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Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Rwanda-Rundi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ha
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Tanzania
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Shubi
Where They Speak
China
Tanzania
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
íkiRǔndi
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
rundi
German Name
Tibetisch
Kirundi
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kirundi
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
rund1242
Linguasphere
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Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Kirundi 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 Kirundi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Kirundi language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Kirundi word for "Thank You" is Urakoze. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Kirundi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Kirundi Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Kirundi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kirundi 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 Kirundi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kirundi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kirundi time required is Not Available.