Countries
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
China, Nepal
National Language
France, Spain
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
- 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
Spanish
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Kaixo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Eskerrik asko
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Zer moduz?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Gabon
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Arratsalde on
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Arratsalde on
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Egun on
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Mesedez
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Barkatu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Agur
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Maite zaitut
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Barkatu
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Navarro-Lapurdian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
France
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Souletin
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Soule, Spain
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Biscayan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Spain
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Native Name
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བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
basque
tibétain
German Name
Baskisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Basque people
tibetan people
Language Family
Vasconic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Basque
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
basq1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
40-AAA-a
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Language Type
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Basque 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 Basque and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Basque and Tibetan language. Basque word for "Hello" is Kaixo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Basque Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Basque vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Basque vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Basque 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 Basque and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Basque and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Basque is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.