Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Lithuania
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Lithuania
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
Poland
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Commission of the Lithuanian Language
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.
- Lithuanian has many loanwords that originate from Slavic, Germanic and other Baltic languages.
- "Catheciusmus" is the oldest known book in Lithuanian language in 1547.
Similar To
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Latvian
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Sveiki
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ačiū
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kaip sekasi?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Labanakt
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labas vakaras
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Laba diena
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Labas rytas
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Prašom
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
atsiprašau
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Ate
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Aš myliu tave
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Atsiprašau
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Samogitian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Lithuania
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Aukštaitian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Curonian
Where They Speak
China
Lithuania
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
lietuvių kalba
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lietuvi, Lietuviskai, Litauische, Litewski, Litovskiy
French Name
tibétain
lituanien
German Name
Tibetisch
Litauisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Lithuanians
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Baltic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Lithuanian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Lithuanian Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
lith1251
Linguasphere
No data Available
54-AAA-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic
Tibetan and Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Lithuanian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Lithuanian word for "Thank You" is Ačiū. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Lithuanian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Lithuanian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Lithuanian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Lithuanian 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 Lithuanian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Lithuanian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Lithuanian time required is 44 weeks.