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Tibetan vs Oriya


Oriya vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
India   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

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

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

Alphabets
35   
17
42   
22

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
11   
8

How Many Consonants
30   
20
31   
21

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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
520,000.00   
21

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
8   
8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
33.00 million   
34

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.50 %   
29

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   

History

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   
32   
26

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Indian Signing System   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual, Macrolanguage   

Code

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   

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Tibetan and Oriya Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Oriya language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Oriya language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Oriya language states that this language originated in 3 BC. 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 Oriya Language History.

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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.

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