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Tibetan vs Spanish


Spanish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
46   
1

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Spain   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española   

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 world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
French Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Latin   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
27   
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
22   
12

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

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
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
hola   

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Cómo estás?   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Buenas Noches   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Bonne soirée   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Buenas Tardes   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Buenos Días   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Por Favor   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
triste   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
adiós   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Te Quiero   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Discúlpeme   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Mexican Spanish   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Mexico   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
105,000,000.00   
5

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Cuban Spanish   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Cuba   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
11,000,000.00   
8

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Puerto Rican Spanish   

Where They Speak
China   
Puerto Rico   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
3,900,000.00   
9

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
21   
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
489.00 million   
3

Speaking Population
Not Available   
6.15 %   
3

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
410.00 million   
2

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
89.50 million   
9

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Castellano, Castilian, Español   

French Name
tibétain   
espagnol; castillan   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Spanisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Not Available   

History

Origin
c. 650   
210 BC   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Romance   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Spanish and Spanish   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Pluricentric Standard Spanish   

Language Position
Not Available   
2   
2

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Spanish   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
es   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
spa   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
spa   

ISO 639 3
bod   
spa   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
stan1288   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
51-AAA-b   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Spanish Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Spanish language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Spanish language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 BC. 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 Spanish Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Spanish Difficulty

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

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