Countries
China, Nepal
India, Nepal
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Not Available
Hindi
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Nepali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good afternoon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Doteli
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nepal
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
China
Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
tibétain
népalais
German Name
Tibetisch
Nepali
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Nepali
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
12
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
Tibetan and Nepali 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 Nepali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Nepali language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Nepali word for "Thank You" is धन्यवाद (dhanyabad). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Nepali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Nepali Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Nepali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Nepali 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 Nepali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Nepali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Nepali time required is 44 weeks.
