Home
Languagevs


Tibetan vs Vietnamese


Vietnamese vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Vietnam   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Vietnam   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Czech Republic   

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.
  
  • The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
  • The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Chinese Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Chinese Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
37   
19

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
12   
9

How Many Consonants
30   
20
21   
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Xin chào   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Cam on   

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Chúc ngủ ngon   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Chào buổi tối   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Chào buổi trưa   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Chào buổi sáng   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
xin vui lòng   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Xin lỗi   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
tôi yêu bạn   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Northern Vietnamese   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
North-central Vietnamese   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Mid-Central Vietnamese   

Where They Speak
China   
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
5   
5

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
91.00 million   
16

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.14 %   
16

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
75.00 million   
14

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
16.00 million   
17

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
tiếng việt (㗂越)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet   

French Name
tibétain   
vietnamien   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Vietnamesisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern) [tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Vietnamese (Kinh) people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
c. 1440   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Austroasiatic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Standard Vietnamese   

Language Position
Not Available   
14   
13

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Vietnamese sign languages   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
vi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
vie   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
vie   

ISO 639 3
bod   
vie   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
viet1252   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
46-EBA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Analytic, Isolating   

Countries >>
<< All

Tibetan and Vietnamese Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Vietnamese language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Vietnamese language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Vietnamese language states that this language originated in c. 1440. 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 Vietnamese Language History.

Compare Easiest Languages to Learn

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

Tibetan vs Vietnamese Difficulty

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

Easiest Languages to Learn

Easiest Languages to Learn

» More Easiest Languages to Learn

Compare Easiest Languages to Learn

» More Compare Easiest Languages to Learn