Countries
China, Nepal
India
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Not Available
Old German Language
Derived From
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Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
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Sanskrit-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
sanskrit
German Name
Tibetisch
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
Not Available
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Sanskrit
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Tibetan and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Sanskrit language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Sanskrit word for "Thank You" is धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Sanskrit Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Sanskrit Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Sanskrit difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Sanskrit 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 Sanskrit are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Sanskrit, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Sanskrit time required is 20 weeks.