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Tibetan vs Sanskrit


Sanskrit vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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
Not Available  
Prakrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
52  
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
16  
13

How Many Consonants
30  
20
36  
26

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Devanagari  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
20 weeks  
5

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Not Available  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
Not Available  

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Not Available  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Not present  

Where They Speak
China  
Not Available  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
0  

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
14.10 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
14.10 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Not Available  

French Name
tibétain  
sanskrit  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Sanskrit  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[səmskr̩t̪əm]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Not Available  

History

Origin
c. 650  
2000 B.C.  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Not Available  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Vedic Sanskrit  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Sanskrit  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
sa  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
san  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
san  

ISO 639 3
bod  
san  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
sans1269  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Ancient  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Synthetic  

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Tibetan and Sanskrit Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Sanskrit language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Sanskrit language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Sanskrit language states that this language originated in 2000 B.C.. 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 Sanskrit Language History.

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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.

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