Countries
Ghana, Ivory coast
China, Nepal
National Language
Ghana
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Benin, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Akan Orthography Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
- Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
- 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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
ete-sen
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
meda ase
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
wo ho te sɛn?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
maadwo
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
maadwo
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
maaha
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
maakye
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
wae
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Kafra
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Me doכ wo
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
mepa wo kyɛw
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Asante
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Akuapem
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Fante
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ghana
China
Speaking Population
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Native Name
Akan
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
akan
tibétain
German Name
Akan-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Akan people
tibetan people
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Akan
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
akan1251
tibe1272
Linguasphere
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Akan 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 Akan and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Akan and Tibetan language. Akan word for "Hello" is ete-sen or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Akan Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Akan vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Akan vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Akan 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 Akan and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Akan and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Akan is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.