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Tibetan vs Ukrainian


Ukrainian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Ukraine   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Ukraine   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language   

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.
  
  • Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
  • Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Russian and Belarusian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
33   
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
22   
12

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

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)   
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Дякую (Dyakuyu)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
На добраніч (Na dobranič)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
будь ласк   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
вибачте (vybachte)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
до побачення (do pobachennya)   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Podillian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Volynian   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Rivne, Volyn   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Steppe   

Where They Speak
China   
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
15   
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
39.00 million   
32

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.46 %   
30

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
39.00 million   
25

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Not Available   

French Name
tibétain   
ukrainien   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Ukrainisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Ukrainians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1561   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Slavic   

Branch
Not Available   
Eastern   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Ukrainian   

Language Position
Not Available   
26   
22

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Ukrainian Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
uk   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
ukr   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
ukr   

ISO 639 3
bod   
ukr   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
ukra1253   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional, Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Ukrainian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Ukrainian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Ukrainian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Ukrainian language states that this language originated in 1561. 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 Ukrainian Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Ukrainian Difficulty

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

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