Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
China, Nepal
National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
- 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
Chinese and Japanese languages
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Hangul
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Jeju
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Korea
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Korea
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
coréen
tibétain
German Name
Koreanisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Koreans
tibetan people
Origin
Before 1st century
c. 650
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
kore1280
tibe1272
Linguasphere
45-AAA
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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Korean 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 Korean and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Korean and Tibetan language. Korean word for "Hello" is 안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Korean Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Korean vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Korean vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Korean 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 Korean and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Korean and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Korean is 88 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.