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Yoruba and Tibetan


Tibetan and Yoruba


Countries

Countries
Benin, Nigeria   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nigeria   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Africa   
Asia   

Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Yoruba Academy   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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
Owo and Itsekiri languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
29   
11
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
12   
9
5   
2

How Many Consonants
17   
7
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks   
9
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Ẹ n lẹ   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

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

How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Kasun layọ o   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
ka a ale   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
e kaasan   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
e kaaro   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Jowo   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
binu   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Itsekiri   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Nigeria   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
500,000.00   
34
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Ede   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Benin, Togo   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
800,000.00   
27
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Ulukwumi   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Nigeria   
China   

How Many People Speak
10,000.00   
34
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
20   
18
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.42 %   
32
Not Available   

Native Speakers
28.00 million   
29
1.20 million   
99+

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

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

French Name
yoruba   
tibétain   

German Name
Yoruba-Sprache   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Yoruba people   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
4 BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Niger-Congo Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Western Sudanic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Kwa   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Yorùbá   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
49   
36
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
yo   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
yor   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
yor   
tib   

ISO 639 3
yor   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
yoru1245   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating   
Not Available   

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All Yoruba and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Yoruba and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Yoruba and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Yoruba are spoken in different Yoruba Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Yoruba vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Yoruba dialects include: Itsekiri, Ede. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Yoruba and Tibetan Speaking population

Yoruba and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Yoruba and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Yoruba and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Yoruba and Tibetan on Yoruba vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Yoruba and Tibetan Language Codes

Yoruba and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Yoruba and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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