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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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