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Tibetan vs Russian


Russian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Russia   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Afganistan   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences   

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.
  
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
10   
7

How Many Consonants
30   
20
21   
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Cyrillic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)   

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Как дела? (Kak dela?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Извините(Izvinite)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
до свидания(do svidaniya)   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
извините(izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Doukhobor Russian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
30,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Olonets   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Olonets   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Novgorod   

Where They Speak
China   
Novgorod   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
13   
13

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
276.00 million   
6

Speaking Population
Not Available   
2.33 %   
9

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
166.00 million   
8

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
110.00 million   
7

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Русский   

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

French Name
tibétain   
russe   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Russisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Russians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old East Slavic   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Standard Russian   

Language Position
Not Available   
7   
7

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Russian   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
ru   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
rus   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
rus   

ISO 639 3
bod   
rus   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
russ1263   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
53-AAA-ea   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Russian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Russian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Russian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. 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 Russian Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Russian Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Russian 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 Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.

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