Countries
China, Nepal
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
- Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Language Levels
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Rimaykullayki
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Solpayki
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Allillanchu
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Allin tuta
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wuynas nuchis
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Wuynas tardis
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Wuynus diyas
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
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Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Pampachaykuway
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Kuyayki
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pampachaway
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Ancash
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Peru
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Huánuco
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Peru
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Yaru
Where They Speak
China
Peru
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Qhichwa
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
North La Paz Quechua
French Name
tibétain
quechua
German Name
Tibetisch
Quechua-Sprache
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Quechua
Origin
c. 650
16th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Quechumaran Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Andean Equatorial
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Quechua
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
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Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
quec1387
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic
Tibetan and Quechua 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 Quechua greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Quechua language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Quechua word for "Thank You" is Solpayki. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Quechua Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Quechua Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Quechua difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Quechua 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 Quechua are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Quechua, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Quechua time required is 44 weeks.