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Armenian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Armenian


Countries

Countries
Armenian Highland  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Armenian National Academy of Sciences  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
  • Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  
  • 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
Greek  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Armenian-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
38  
20
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
32  
22
30  
20

Scripts
Armenian manuscript  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
12  
9
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Բարեւ (Barev)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Բարի օր (Bari or)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
կներեք (knerek’)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
Ց'տեսություն  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Eastern Armenian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Western Armenian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Eastern Armenian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
-  
China  

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00  
34
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
2  
2
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
6.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.22 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
7.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Հայերէն (Hayeren)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
arménien  
tibétain  

German Name
Armenisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Armenians  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
late 5th century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
14  
13
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Armenian  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
hy  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hye  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
arm  
tib  

ISO 639 3
hye  
bod  

ISO 639 6
hye  
bod  

Glottocode
arme1241  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
57-AAA-a  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
-  

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All Armenian 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 Armenian and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Armenian and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Armenian are spoken in different Armenian Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Armenian vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Armenian dialects include: Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Armenian and Tibetan Speaking population

Armenian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Armenian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Armenian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Armenian language is 0.22 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. 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 Armenian and Tibetan on Armenian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Armenian and Tibetan Language Codes

Armenian and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Armenian and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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