Countries
China, Nepal
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
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.
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
Similar To
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Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Derived From
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Habari
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Asante
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Habari gani?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Usiku mwema
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Habari za jioni
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
nzuri Alasiri
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Habari za asubuhi
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
tafadhali
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
pole
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
nakupenda
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Samahani
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kiunguja
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Zanzibar island
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kimrima
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Dar es Salaam
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Kimgao
Where They Speak
China
Kilwa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Not Available
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kisuaheli, Kiswahili
French Name
tibétain
swahili
German Name
Tibetisch
Swahili
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Swahili people or Waswahili
Origin
c. 650
6th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Bantu
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Swahili
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
swah1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUS-m
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Swahili 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 Swahili greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Swahili language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Swahili word for "Thank You" is Asante. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Swahili Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Swahili Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Swahili difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Swahili 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 Swahili are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Swahili, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Swahili time required is 36 weeks.