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Tibetan vs Lithuanian


Lithuanian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
European Union, Lithuania   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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
Not Available   
Latvian   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Lithuanian-Alpahbets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
32   
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
12   
9

How Many Consonants
30   
20
20   
10

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)   
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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Samogitian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Lithuania   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
500,000.00   
34

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Aukštaitian   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Lithuania   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Curonian   

Where They Speak
China   
Lithuania   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
10   
10

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
3.00 million   
99+

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   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Lithuanians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
c. 1503   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Baltic   

Language Forms
  
  

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   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
lt   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
lit   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
lit   

ISO 639 3
bod   
lit   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
lith1251   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
54-AAA-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Lithuanian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Lithuanian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Lithuanian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Lithuanian language states that this language originated in c. 1503. 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 Lithuanian Language History.

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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.

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