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German vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs German


Countries

Countries
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
7   
8
2   
13

National Language
Germany   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
North Dakota, United States of America   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Council for German Orthography   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
  • 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
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Albanian Languages   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26   
8
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
5   
2

How Many Consonants
9   
1
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
30 weeks   
9
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
Wie geht es dir?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
gute Nacht   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
guten Abend   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
guten Tag   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

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

Please
bitte   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Verzeihung   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
Ich liebe dich   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Swiss German   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Switzerland   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
4,500,000.00   
18
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Swabian German   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Germany   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
820,000.00   
26
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Texas German   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Texas   
China   

How Many People Speak
6,000.00   
35
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
28   
23
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
229.00 million   
8
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.39 %   
12
Not Available   

Native Speakers
101.00 million   
10
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
128.00 million   
5
Not Available   

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

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

French Name
allemand   
tibétain   

German Name
Deutsch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Germans   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
6th Century AD   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Germanic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Western   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
9   
9
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed German   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
de   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
deu   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
ger   
tib   

ISO 639 3
deu   
bod   

ISO 639 6
deus   
Not Available   

Glottocode
high1287, uppe1397   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
52-ACB–dl & -dm   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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German and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of German vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of German and Tibetan language. History of German language states that this language originated in 6th Century AD 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 German and Tibetan Language History.

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

German vs Tibetan Difficulty

The German vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of German 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 German and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in German and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn German is 30 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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