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Tibetan vs Yoruba


Yoruba vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Benin, Nigeria  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Nigeria  

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

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Yoruba Academy  

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 largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
  • In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Owo and Itsekiri languages  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
30  
20
17  
7

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
30 weeks  
9

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Ẹ n lẹ  

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Bawo ni o se wa  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Kasun layọ o  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
ka a ale  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
e kaasan  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
e kaaro  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Jowo  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
binu  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
mo nifẹ rẹ  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
mo tọrọ gafara  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Itsekiri  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
500,000.00  
34

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Ede  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Benin, Togo  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
800,000.00  
27

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Ulukwumi  

Where They Speak
China  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
10,000.00  
34

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
20  
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.42 %  
32

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
28.00 million  
29

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Yorùbá  

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

French Name
tibétain  
yoruba  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Yoruba-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Yoruba people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
4 BC  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Western Sudanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Kwa  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Yorùbá  

Language Position
Not Available  
49  
36

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Yoruba Sign Language  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
yo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
yor  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
yor  

ISO 639 3
bod  
yor  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
yoru1245  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Analytic, Isolating  

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Tibetan and Yoruba Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Yoruba language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Yoruba language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Yoruba language states that this language originated in 4 BC. 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 Yoruba Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Yoruba Difficulty

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

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