Countries
China, Nepal
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
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 in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Azerbaijani Turkish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Crimean Turkish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Gagauz
Where They Speak
China
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Turkic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Turkic
Branch
Not Available
Southwestern(Oghuz)
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Turkish Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1301
Linguasphere
No data Available
44-AAB-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
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.
