Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
China, Nepal
National Language
China, Guangdong
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Hawaii
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
您好
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
谢谢
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
你好吗？
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
晚安
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
晚上好
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
下午好
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
早上好
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
请
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
遗憾
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
再见
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
我爱你
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
原谅我
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
China
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
cantonais
tibétain
German Name
Kantonesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
tibetan people
Origin
17th century
c. 650
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Tibetan Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 3
No data available
bod
Glottocode
cant1236
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Tibetan language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.