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Hebrew vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Hebrew


Countries

Countries
Israel  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Israel  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Israel  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Poland  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Academy of the Hebrew Language  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
  • The men and women use different verbs in hebrew 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
Arabic and Aramaic languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Aramaic Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
22  
4
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
0  
5  
2

How Many Consonants
22  
12
30  
20

Scripts
Hebrew  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, 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
שלום (Shalom)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

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

How Are You?
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
לילה טוב (Laila tov)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
ערב טוב (Erev tov)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
בבקשה (bevekshah)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
סליחה! (Slicha)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Ashkenazi Hebrew  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Israel  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
9,200,000.00  
38
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Samaritan Hebrew  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Israel, Palestine  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
38
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Yemenite Hebrew  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Israel  
China  

How Many People Speak
9,000,000.00  
30
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.11 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
4.40 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.60 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

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

French Name
hébreu  
tibétain  

German Name
Hebräisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Hebrew-speaking people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1000 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Semitic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Canaanitic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Modern Hebrew  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
23  
21
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Hebrew  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
he  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
heb  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
heb  
tib  

ISO 639 3
heb  
bod  

ISO 639 6
heb  
bod  

Glottocode
hebr1246  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
12-AAB-a  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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Hebrew and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Hebrew vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Hebrew and Tibetan language. History of Hebrew language states that this language originated in 1000 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 Hebrew and Tibetan Language History.

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

Hebrew vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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