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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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