Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
China, Nepal
National Language
Turkey
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- 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.
Similar To
Azerbaijani Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Merhaba
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
İyi Geceler
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
günaydın
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
lütfen
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
üzgünüm
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Hoşçakal
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
Türkçe
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
turc
tibétain
German Name
Türkisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Turkish
tibetan people
Language Family
Turkic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
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Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nucl1301
tibe1272
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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Turkish and Tibetan 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 Turkish and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Turkish and Tibetan language. Turkish word for "Hello" is Merhaba or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Turkish Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Turkish vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Turkish vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Turkish Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Turkish and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Turkish and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Turkish is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
