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Tibetan vs Turkish


Turkish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
11   
5

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Turkey   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Turkish Language Association   

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.
  
  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Azerbaijani Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
30   
20
21   
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Merhaba   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
teşekkür ederim   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Nasılsın?   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
İyi Geceler   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
İyi Akşamlar   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Tünaydın   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
günaydın   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
lütfen   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
üzgünüm   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Hoşçakal   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Seni seviyorum   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Afedersiniz   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Azerbaijani Turkish   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
26,000,000.00   
9

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Crimean Turkish   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
480,000.00   
29

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Gagauz   

Where They Speak
China   
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
140,000.00   
26

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
9   
9

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
75.00 million   
23

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.95 %   
21

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
60.00 million   
20

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
15.00 million   
18

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Türkçe   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Anatolian, Türkisch   

French Name
tibétain   
turc   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Türkisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Turkish   

History

Origin
c. 650   
c. 1350   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Turkic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Turkic   

Branch
Not Available   
Southwestern(Oghuz)   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)   

Language Position
Not Available   
19   
17

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Turkish Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
tr   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
tur   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
tur   

ISO 639 3
bod   
tur   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
nucl1301   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
44-AAB-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Turkish Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Turkish language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Turkish language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Turkish language states that this language originated in c. 1350. 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 Turkish Language History.

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Tibetan and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Turkish language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Turkish Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.

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