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Tibetan vs Welsh


Welsh vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Wales   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Wales   

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   
Argentina, United Kingdom   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Welsh Language Commissioner   

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.
  
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
English Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
British Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
7   
4

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
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
30 weeks   
9

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Nos da   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Noswaith dda   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
P'nawn da   

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
os gwelwch yn dda   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Mae'n ddrwg gennym   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Dw i'n dy garu di   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Patagonian Welsh   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Argentina   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
38,000.00   
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Y Wyndodeg   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Gwynedd   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Y Bowyseg   

Where They Speak
China   
Powys   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
8   
8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
7.40 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
7.40 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg   

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

French Name
tibétain   
gallois   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Kymrisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Welsh people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
9th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Celtic   

Branch
Not Available   
Brythonic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Welsh   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
cy   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
cym   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
wel   

ISO 639 3
bod   
cym   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
wels1247   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
50-ABA   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Historical   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Verb-Subject-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional   

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Tibetan and Welsh Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Welsh language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Welsh language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Welsh language states that this language originated in 9th Century. 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 Welsh Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Welsh Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Welsh difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Welsh 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 Welsh are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Welsh, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Welsh time required is 30 weeks.

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