Countries
Japan
China, Nepal
National Language
Japan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia
Minority Language
Palau
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Japanese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Kana
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
さようなら (Sayōnara)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Sanuki
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kagawa
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Hakata
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Fukuoka
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 3
Kansai
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
kansai
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
日本語
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Not Available
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
japonais
tibétain
German Name
Japanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
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Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
tibetan people
Language Family
Japonic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Japanese
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
nucl1643
tibe1272
Linguasphere
45-CAA-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Japanese 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 Japanese and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Japanese and Tibetan language. Japanese word for "Hello" is こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Japanese Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Japanese vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Japanese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Japanese 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 Japanese and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Japanese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Japanese is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.