Countries
China, Nepal
Burkina Faso
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
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.
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
Similar To
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Dagbani 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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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kia ora
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Laafi bala
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Laafi beme ?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ne y yungo
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ne y zabre
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Kia ora
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Ne y yibeogo
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
gafare
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
gafare
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Wend na kon-d nindaare
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Y gafare
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ouapadoupou
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Saremde
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Taolende
Where They Speak
China
Burkina Faso
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Mosse
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
moré
German Name
Tibetisch
Mossi-Sprache
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Mossi
Origin
c. 650
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Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic
Branch
Not Available
Gur (Voltaic)
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Mossi
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
moss1236
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Mossi 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 Mossi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Mossi language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Mossi word for "Thank You" is Laafi bala. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Mossi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Mossi Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Mossi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Mossi 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 Mossi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Mossi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Mossi time required is 30 weeks.