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Oriya vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Oriya


Countries

Countries
India  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
India  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
-  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The earliest literature in Oriya was traced in 7th to 9th centuries.
  • Since Odia is having a long literary history and has not borrowed largely from other languages, it is the 6th classical language in India.
  
  • 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
Bengali and Assamese  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
42  
22
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
11  
8
5  
2

How Many Consonants
31  
21
30  
20

Scripts
Bengali, Odia alphabet (Brahmic)  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, 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
ନମସ୍କାର (namascara)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
ଧନ୍ୟବାଦ୍ (dhanyabaad)  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
କେମିତି ଅତ୍ଚନ୍ଥି? (kemiti achanti?)  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
ସୁଭରାତ୍ର (shubharaatra)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
ସୁଭସନ୍ଧ୍ୟା (subha sandhya)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
ସୁଭ ଖରା ବେଳ (shubha kharaa bela)  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
ସୁପ୍ରଭାତ (suprabhaata)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
ଦୟାକରି  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
ମୁଁ ଦୁଃଖିତ (mū duḥkhita)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
ମୁଁ ତୁମକୁ ଭଲ ପାଏ (mu tumoku bhala paye)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
କ୍ଷମା କରିବେ (kyamā karibe)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Baleswari  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
India  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
33,800,000.00  
22
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Ganjami  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
India  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
33,800,000.00  
20
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Kosli  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
India  
China  

How Many People Speak
520,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
33.00 million  
34
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.50 %  
31
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
33.00 million  
28
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
35.00 million  
24
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
ଓଡ଼ିଆ (ōṛiyā)  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Odisha, Odri, Odrum, Oliya, Uriya, Utkali, Vadiya, Yudhia  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
oriya  
tibétain  

German Name
Oriya-Sprache  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Odias  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
3 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Indic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Odia  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
32  
30
29  
27

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
or  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
ori  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
ori  
tib  

ISO 639 3
ori  
bod  

ISO 639 6
ori  
bod  

Glottocode
macr1269  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Oriya and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Oriya vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Oriya and Tibetan language. History of Oriya language states that this language originated in 3 BC 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 Oriya and Tibetan Language History.

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

Oriya vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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