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
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
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Derived From
Latin
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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
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།
Dialect 1
Quebec French
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
African French
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Africa
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Swiss French
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
Origin
9th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Romance
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard French
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
fras
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Glottocode
stan1290
tibe1272
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
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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.