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Tibetan vs 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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Greek and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Greek vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Greek and Tibetan language. History of Greek language states that this language originated in 1500 BC 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 Greek and Tibetan Language History.

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

Greek vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Greek vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Greek 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 Greek and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Greek and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Greek is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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