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Tibetan and Greek


Countries

Countries
Cyprus, European Union, Greece  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
2  
13

National Language
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Roman Empire  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  
  • 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
Armenian  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
24  
6
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7  
4
5  
2

How Many Consonants
17  
7
30  
20

Scripts
Arabic, 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
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
γεια σας (geia sas)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

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

How Are You?
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

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

Please
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Cappadocian Greek  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Greece  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
2,800.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Griko  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Italy  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
50,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Mariupol  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Ukraine  
China  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
28
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
25  
21
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
13.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.18 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
13.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
13.00 million  
37
6.00 million  
99+

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

Alternative Names
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
grec moderne (après 1453)  
tibétain  

German Name
Neugriechisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[eliniˈka]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Greeks or Hellenes  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1500 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Hellenic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Modern Greek  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
74  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Greek Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
el  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ell  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
gre  
tib  

ISO 639 3
ell  
bod  

ISO 639 6
ells  
bod  

Glottocode
gree1276  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
56-AAA-a  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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All Greek and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Greek and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Greek and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Greek are spoken in different Greek Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Greek vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek, Griko. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Greek and Tibetan Speaking population

Greek and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Greek and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Greek and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Greek language is 0.18 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Greek and Tibetan on Greek vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Greek and Tibetan Language Codes

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