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Tibetan vs Korean


Countries

Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
2  
13

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  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
40  
21
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
21  
18
5  
2

How Many Consonants
19  
9
30  
20

Scripts
Hangul  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks  
19
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Jeju  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
South Korea  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
10,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Gyeongsang  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
South Korea  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
10,000,000.00  
37
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
China, North Korea  
China  

How Many People Speak
77,000,000.00  
7
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
12  
12
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
77.00 million  
22
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
1.14 %  
17
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
77.00 million  
12
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
77.00 million  
13
6.00 million  
99+

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
[hangukmal]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Koreans  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
Before 1st century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Koreanic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

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
12  
11
29  
27

Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
ko  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kor  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
kor  
tib  

ISO 639 3
Kor  
bod  

ISO 639 6
kor  
bod  

Glottocode
kore1280  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
45-AAA  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
-  

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Korean and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Korean vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Korean and Tibetan language. History of Korean language states that this language originated in Before 1st 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 Korean and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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