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Tibetan vs Tulu


Tulu 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.
  
  • 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
Not Available   
Kannada Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
51   
30

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
16   
13

How Many Consonants
30   
20
35   
25

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Kannada Script   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Brahmin tulu   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Tamil Nadu   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Jain   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Tamil Nadu   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Girijan   

Where They Speak
China   
Tamil Nadu   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
4   
4

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
1.70 million   
99+

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   
Not Available   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Not Available   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Tuluva   

History

Origin
c. 650   
14   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Dravidian Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

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   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
No data available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
Not Available   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
Not Available   

ISO 639 3
bod   
tcy   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
tulu1258   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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Tibetan and Tulu Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Tulu language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Tulu language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Tulu language states that this language originated in 14. 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 Tulu Language History.

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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.

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