Countries
China, Nepal
China, Nepal
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Nepal, Tibet
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
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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.
- 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.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China
China
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
tibétain
tibétain
German Name
Tibetisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
tibetan people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
tibe1272
Linguasphere
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Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Tibetan 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 Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Tibetan language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.