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Tibetan vs Latvian


Latvian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
European Union, Latvia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Latvia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Latvian State Language Center  

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 first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
  • The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Lithuanian Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
9  
6

How Many Consonants
30  
20
24  
14

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
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Labvakar  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Labdien  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
lūdzu  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Piedodiet!  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Es tevi mīlu  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Livonian  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Latvia  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Middle Latvian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Latvia  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
High Latvian  

Where They Speak
China  
France, Latvia  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
1.75 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
latviešu valoda  

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

French Name
tibétain  
letton  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Lettisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Latvians or Letts  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1530  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Baltic  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Latvian  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Latvian Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
lv  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
lav  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
lav  

ISO 639 3
bod  
lav  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
latv1249  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
54-AAB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Synthetic  

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Tibetan and Latvian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Latvian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Latvian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Latvian language states that this language originated in 1530. 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 Latvian Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Latvian Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Latvian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Latvian 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 Latvian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Latvian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Latvian time required is 44 weeks.

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