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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
Spanish
5
Rank: 10 (Overall)
2
Rank: 13 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
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1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
  • In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  • 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.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
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1.10 Derived From
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2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
Tamil
26
Rank: 8 (Overall)
35
Rank: 17 (Overall)
Irish
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
Thai
24
Rank: 19 (Overall)
5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Hebrew
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
Hmong
23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
30
Rank: 20 (Overall)
German
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2.4 Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
Armenian
6
Rank: 5 (Overall)
2
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Bengali
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
Chinese
88 weeks
Rank: 13 (Overall)
24 weeks
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Cebuano
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
您好 (Nín hǎo)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
请 (Qǐng)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
再见 (Zàijiàn)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
960,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
1,200,000.00
Rank: 27 (Overall)
Macedonian
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4.2 Dialect 2
Wu
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Chinese
80,000,000.00
Rank: 1 (Overall)
1,400,000.00
Rank: 23 (Overall)
Dzongkha
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4.3 Dialect 3
Yue
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
Swedish
60,000,000.00
Rank: 2 (Overall)
1,800,000.00
Rank: 16 (Overall)
Romanian
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
English
10
Rank: 10 (Overall)
6
Rank: 6 (Overall)
Sanskrit
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
English
1,051.00 million
Rank: 2 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 85 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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5.2 Speaking Population
Croatian
16.00 %
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
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5.3 Native Speakers
Chinese
873.00 million
Rank: 1 (Overall)
1.20 million
Rank: 80 (Overall)
Abkhaz
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
English
178.00 million
Rank: 3 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
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5.3.2 Native Name
中文 (zhōngwén)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
chinois
tibétain
5.3.5 German Name
Chinesisch
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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5.5 Ethnicity
Han
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1250 BC
c. 650
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
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6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
Georgian
1
Rank: 1 (Overall)
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Chinese
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Individual
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
zh
bo
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
zho
bod
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
chi
tib
7.3 ISO 639 3
zho
bod
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
sini1245
tibe1272
7.6 Linguasphere
79-AAA
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Chinese vs Tibetan Speaking Countries

There are plenty of languages spoken around the world. Every country has its own official language. Compare Chinese vs Tibetan speaking countries, so that you will have total count of countries that speak Chinese or Tibetan language.

  • Chinese is spoken as a national language in: China, Taiwan.
  • Tibetan is spoken as a national language in: Nepal, Tibet.

You will also get to know the continents where Chinese and Tibetan speaking countries lie. Based on the number of people that speak these languages, the position of Chinese language is 1 and position of Tibetan language is not available. Find all the information about these languages on Chinese and Tibetan.

Chinese and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Chinese vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Chinese and Tibetan language. History of Chinese language states that this language originated in 1250 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 Chinese and Tibetan Language History.

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

Chinese vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Chinese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Chinese 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 Chinese and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Chinese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Chinese is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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