Countries
China, Nepal
  
Wales
  
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 in
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Welsh-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Patagonian Welsh
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Argentina
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
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
  
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.