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Tibetan vs Oromo


Oromo vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Ethiopia, Kenya  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Ethiopia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Somalia  

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.
  
  • Oromo language is the third most spoken language in Africa.
  • Oromo is most spoken language in Cushitic Family.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Somali Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
34  
16

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
30  
20
24  
14

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
Not Available  

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
akkam  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Galatoomi  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Attam jirta/jirtu?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Nagayattii buli  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Akkam waarite  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Attam oolte / ooltan  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Attam bulte/bultan  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Maaloo  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
naa dhiisi  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Nagayattii!  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Sin jaaladha  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Maaloo na dabarsi  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Borana  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Ethiopia, Kenya  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
4,000,000.00  
19

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Orma  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Kenya  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
66,000.00  
37

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Wata  

Where They Speak
China  
Kenya  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
13,000.00  
33

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
17  
16

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
25.00 million  
40

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.36 %  
36

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
24.00 million  
33

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Afaan Oromo  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Afaan Oromoo  

French Name
tibétain  
galla  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Galla-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Oromos  

History

Origin
c. 650  
16  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Afro-Asiatic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Cushitic  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Afaan Oromo  

Language Position
Not Available  
91  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
om  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
orm  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
orm  

ISO 639 3
bod  
orm  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
nucl1736  

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 Oromo Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Oromo language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Oromo language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Oromo language states that this language originated in 16. 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 Oromo Language History.

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Tibetan and Oromo 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 Oromo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Oromo language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Oromo word for "Thank You" is Galatoomi. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Oromo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Oromo Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Oromo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Oromo 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 Oromo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Oromo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Oromo time required is Not Available.

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