Countries
China, Nepal
  
India
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
India
  
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.
  
- The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
- Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Bengali and Assamese
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Oriya-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Not Available
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
ସୁବିଦାୟ (shubidaaya)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Baleswari
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Ganjami
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Kosli
  
Where They Speak
China
  
India
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
34
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
33.00 million
  
28
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia
  
French Name
tibétain
  
oriya
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Oriya-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[ˈoɽia]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Odias
  
Origin
c. 650
  
3 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Standard Odia
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Indian Signing System
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
or
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
ori
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
ori
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
ori
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
macr1269
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Tibetan and Oriya 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 Oriya greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Oriya language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Oriya word for "Thank You" is ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Oriya Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Oriya Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Oriya difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Oriya 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 Oriya are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Oriya, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Oriya time required is 44 weeks.