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Quechua and Tibetan


Tibetan and Quechua


Countries

Countries
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
2  
13

National Language
Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru  
Nepal, Tibet  

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

Speaking Continents
South America  
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
  • One of the most widely spoken indigenous language in the America is Quechua.
  • Quechua language has borrowed many words from Spanish.
  
  • 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
Aymara and Guarani Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
31  
13
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
26  
16
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Rimaykullayki  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

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

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

Good Night
Allin tuta  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Wuynas nuchis  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Wuynas tardis  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Wuynus diyas  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
jamuspa  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Pampachaykuway  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Kuyayki  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
Pampachaway  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Ancash  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Peru  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
920,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Huánuco  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Peru  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
190,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Yaru  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Peru  
China  

How Many People Speak
150,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
10  
10
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.90 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
8.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
Qhichwa  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
North La Paz Quechua  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
quechua  
tibétain  

German Name
Quechua-Sprache  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈketʃwa]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Quechua  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
16th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Quechumaran Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Andean Equatorial  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Quechua  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
23  
21
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Quechua  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
qu  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
que  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
que  
tib  

ISO 639 3
que  
bod  

ISO 639 6
que  
bod  

Glottocode
quec1387  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic  
-  

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All Quechua and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Quechua and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Quechua and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Quechua are spoken in different Quechua Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Quechua vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Quechua dialects include: Ancash, Huánuco. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Quechua and Tibetan Speaking population

Quechua and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Quechua and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Quechua and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Quechua language is 0.13 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Quechua and Tibetan on Quechua vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Quechua and Tibetan Language Codes

Quechua and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Quechua and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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