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
Not Available
  
Kannada Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tulu-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Kannada Script
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
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
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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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.