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Welsh vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Welsh


Countries

Countries
Wales   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Wales   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Welsh Language Commissioner   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  
  • 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
English Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
British Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7   
4
5   
2

How Many Consonants
21   
11
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks   
9
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Helô   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

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

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

Good Night
Nos da   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Noswaith dda   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
P'nawn da   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Bore da   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
os gwelwch yn dda   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Mae'n ddrwg gennym   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
Dw i'n dy garu di   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Argentina   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
38,000.00   
99+
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Gwynedd   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Powys   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
8   
8
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.40 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
7.40 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

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

French Name
gallois   
tibétain   

German Name
Kymrisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Welsh people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
9th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Celtic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Brythonic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Welsh   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
cy   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
cym   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
wel   
tib   

ISO 639 3
cym   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
wels1247   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
50-ABA   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional   
Not Available   

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Welsh and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Welsh vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Welsh and Tibetan language. History of Welsh language states that this language originated in 9th Century whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. 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 Welsh and Tibetan Language History.

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Welsh 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 Welsh and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Welsh and Tibetan language. Welsh word for "Hello" is Helô or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Welsh Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Welsh vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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