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Italian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Italian


Countries

Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
7  
8
2  
13

National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
  • 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
French and Portuguese Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
21  
3
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
16  
6
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
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
Come stai?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

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

Good Evening
buonasera  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

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

Please
Per Favore  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
scusate  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Ti amo  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Romanesco  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Lazio  
China, India, Nepal  

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

Dialect 2
Central Italian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Tuscan  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria  
China  

How Many People Speak
69,000,000.00  
11
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
15  
14
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
78.00 million  
21
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.90 %  
23
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
64.00 million  
18
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
14.00 million  
36
6.00 million  
99+

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

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

French Name
italien  
tibétain  

German Name
Italienisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Italians  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
960 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Italian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
27  
25
29  
27

Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
it  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ita  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
ita  
tib  

ISO 639 3
ita  
bod  

ISO 639 6
itas  
bod  

Glottocode
ital1282  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-q  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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Italian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Italian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Italian and Tibetan language. History of Italian language states that this language originated in 960 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 Italian and Tibetan Language History.

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

Italian vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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