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Hindi vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Hindi


Countries

Countries
Fiji, India  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
India  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
  • In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
  
  • 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
Urdu  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
44  
24
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
11  
8
5  
2

How Many Consonants
33  
23
30  
20

Scripts
Devanagari  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
खेद (Khēda)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Khariboli  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
240,000,000.00  
3
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Marwari  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
22,000,000.00  
24
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Bundeli  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bundelkhand  
China  

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00  
24
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
380.00 million  
5
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
4.70 %  
5
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
260.00 million  
4
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
120.00 million  
6
6.00 million  
99+

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

Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
hindi  
tibétain  

German Name
Hindi  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Hindustani people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
7th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Indic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Hindi  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
5  
5
29  
27

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
hi  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
hin  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
hin  
tib  

ISO 639 3
hin  
bod  

ISO 639 6
hins  
bod  

Glottocode
hind1269  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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Hindi and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Hindi vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Hindi and Tibetan language. History of Hindi language states that this language originated in 7th Century 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 Hindi and Tibetan Language History.

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

Hindi vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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