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Tibetan vs Mossi


Mossi vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Burkina Faso  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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
Not Available  
Dagbani Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
26  
8

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
16  
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Ouapadoupou  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Burkina Faso  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Saremde  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Burkina Faso  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Taolende  

Where They Speak
China  
Burkina Faso  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
8  
8

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.11 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
7.60 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Mosse  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Not Available  

French Name
tibétain  
moré  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Mossi-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Mossi  

History

Origin
c. 650  
Not available  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Western Sudanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Gur (Voltaic)  

Language Forms
  
  

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  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
No data Available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
mos  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
mos  

ISO 639 3
bod  
mos  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
moss1236  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Mossi Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Mossi language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Mossi language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Mossi language states that this language originated in Not available. 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 Mossi Language History.

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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.

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