Countries
China, Nepal
South Africa
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
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Xhosa Language
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)
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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Qwabe
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gabon, South Africa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Georgia, South Africa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Ndebele
Where They Speak
China
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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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
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Zulu people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Branch
Not Available
Beatu
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
urban Zulu
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Deep Zulu
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
zulu1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-fg
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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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.