Countries
China, Nepal
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
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 in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Olonets
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Novgorod
Where They Speak
China
Novgorod
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Russian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Russian
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
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.