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Yoruba vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs 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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Yoruba and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Yoruba vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Yoruba and Tibetan language. History of Yoruba language states that this language originated in 4 BC 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 Yoruba and Tibetan Language History.

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

Yoruba vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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