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Tibetan vs French


Countries

Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
32  
3
2  
13

National Language
France  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Africa, Canada  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America  
Asia  

Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
  • French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
  • 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
Italian Language  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
20  
10
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
bonjour  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Merci  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
bonne Nuit  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
bonsoir  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Bonjour  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
S'il vous plaît  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
désolé  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
au revoir  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Je t'aime  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Excuse Moi  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Quebec French  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada  
China, India, Nepal  

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

Dialect 2
African French  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Africa  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
274,000,000.00  
1
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Swiss French  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
25  
21
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
163.00 million  
11
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.12 %  
18
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
76.00 million  
13
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
87.00 million  
11
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
français  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Français  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
français  
tibétain  

German Name
Französisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
French people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
9th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard French  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
13  
12
29  
27

Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
fr  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fra  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
fre  
tib  

ISO 639 3
fra  
bod  

ISO 639 6
fras  
bod  

Glottocode
stan1290  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-i  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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French and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of French vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of French and Tibetan language. History of French language states that this language originated in 9th Century 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 French and Tibetan Language History.

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

French vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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