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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
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Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Namaskara
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
yedde rathre
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
yedde kaande
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Daya maltadu
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Barpe
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Jain
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Girijan
Where They Speak
China
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Tulu
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
tibétain
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German Name
Tibetisch
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Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Tuluva
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Tulu
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2/T
bod
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ISO 639 2/B
tib
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ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
tulu1258
Linguasphere
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No data available
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Tulu 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 Tulu greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Tulu language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Tulu word for "Thank You" is Mast Upakara.. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Tulu Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Tulu Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Tulu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Tulu 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 Tulu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Tulu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Tulu time required is 44 weeks.
