Countries
Benin, Nigeria
China, Nepal
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 in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Ede
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
yoru1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available
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.
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.
