Countries
European Union, Latvia
China, Nepal
National Language
Latvia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Latvian State Language Center
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
- 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
Lithuanian Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Sveiki
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Paldies
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Kā jums klājas?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Ar labunakti
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Labvakar
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Labdien
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Labrīt
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
lūdzu
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Piedodiet!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Uz redzēšanos
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Es tevi mīlu
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Piedodiet!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Livonian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Latvia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Middle Latvian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Latvia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
High Latvian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Latvia
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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Native Name
latviešu valoda
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Lettish
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
letton
tibétain
German Name
Lettisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
Latvians or Letts
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Baltic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Latvian
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Latvian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
ISO 639 6
not Available
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Glottocode
latv1249
tibe1272
Linguasphere
54-AAB-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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Latvian 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 Latvian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Latvian and Tibetan language. Latvian word for "Hello" is Sveiki or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Latvian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Latvian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Latvian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Latvian 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 Latvian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Latvian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Latvian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.