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Kazakh vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Kazakh


Countries

Countries
China, Kazakhstan, Russia  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
2  
13

National Language
Gambia, Kazakhstan  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries, Republic of Brazil  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Afganistan, Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Kazakh language agency  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The Kazakh language can be written using a variety of scripts.
  • Kazakh Language contains many words from Russian, Arabic, Mongol, Persian and other Turkic languages.
  
  • 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
Turkish and Uzbek Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
24  
6
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
17  
7
30  
20

Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Сәлеметсіз бе (Sälemetsiz be)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
Рақмет сізге (Raqmet sizge)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
Қалыңыз қалай? (Qalıñız qalay?)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
қайырлы түн (qayırlı tün)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
қайырлы кеш (qayırlı keş)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
қайырлы күн (qayırlı kün)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
қайырлы таң (qayırlı tañ)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
өтінемін (ötinemin)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
кешіріңіз (keşiriñiz)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Мен сені жақсы көремін (Men seni jaqsı köremin)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Кешіріңіз! (Keşiriñiz!)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northeastern Kazakh  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00  
31
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Southern Kazakh  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00  
28
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Western Kazakh  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan  
China  

How Many People Speak
18,000,000.00  
25
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.17 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
11.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
18.00 million  
32
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Қазақ тілі / Qazaq tili / قازاق ٴتىلى  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Kaisak, Kazak, Kosach, Qazaq  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
kazakh  
tibétain  

German Name
Kasachisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Kazahks  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
17th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Turkic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Turkic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Northwestern (Kipchak)  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Kazakh  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
93  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Kazakh Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
kk  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kaz  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
kaz  
tib  

ISO 639 3
kaz  
bod  

ISO 639 6
kaz  
bod  

Glottocode
kaza1248  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
-  

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Kazakh and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Kazakh vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Kazakh and Tibetan language. History of Kazakh language states that this language originated in 17th 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 Kazakh and Tibetan Language History.

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

Kazakh vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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