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Tibetan vs Zulu


Zulu vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
South Africa  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
South Africa  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Pan South African Language Board  

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 meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
  • Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Xhosa Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
57  
34

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
7  
4

How Many Consonants
30  
20
50  
35

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)  
Sawubona  

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
okuhle ebusuku  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
okuhle kusihlwa  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
okuhle ntambama  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
okuhle ekuseni  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Ngiyacela  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Ngiyaxolisa  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Ngiyakuthanda wena  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Qwabe  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Gabon, South Africa  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Georgia, South Africa  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Ndebele  

Where They Speak
China  
Zimbabwe  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.16 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
12.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
16.00 million  
17

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

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

French Name
tibétain  
zoulou  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Zulu-Sprache  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Zulu people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
19  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Benue-Congo  

Branch
Not Available  
Beatu  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
urban Zulu  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Deep Zulu  

Language Position
Not Available  
87  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
zu  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
zul  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
zul  

ISO 639 3
bod  
zul  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
zulu1248  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
99-AUT-fg  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Zulu Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Zulu language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Zulu language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Zulu language states that this language originated in 19. 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 Zulu Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Zulu Difficulty

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

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