Countries
China, Nepal
Benin, Nigeria
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
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Owo and Itsekiri languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Itsekiri
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Nigeria
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Ede
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Benin, Togo
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ulukwumi
Where They Speak
China
Nigeria
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Yoruba people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Western Sudanic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Yorùbá
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Yoruba Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
yoru1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
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.