Countries
China, Nepal
Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Portugal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
United States of America
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Daman and Diu, France, Germany, Goa, Italy, Japan, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academia Brasileira de Letras (Brazilian Literary Academy), Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Classe de Letras
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.
- Portuguese language has absorbed many words from French, Italian, Arabic and also from indigenous South American and African languages.
- The first written document in Portuguese language was found in the 12th century.
Similar To
Not Available
Spanish and Galician Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Olá
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
obrigado
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Como você está?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
boa noite
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
boa Noite
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
boa Tarde
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
bom Dia
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Por Favor
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pesaroso
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
tchau
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Eu te amo
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
desculpe me
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Brazilian Portuguese
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Brazil
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
European Portuguese
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Portugal
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Daman and Diu Portuguese creole
Where They Speak
China
Daman and Diu
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Português
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Português
French Name
tibétain
portugais
German Name
Tibetisch
Portugiesisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[puɾtuˈɣeʃ], [poʁtuˈɡes]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Portuguese people or portugueses
Origin
c. 650
3rd Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Medieval Galician
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Portuguese
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Portuguese
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
port1283
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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Tibetan and Portuguese 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 Portuguese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Portuguese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Portuguese word for "Thank You" is obrigado. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Portuguese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Portuguese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Portuguese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Portuguese 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 Portuguese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Portuguese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Portuguese time required is 24 weeks.