Countries
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
China, Nepal
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
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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
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Ancash
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Peru
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Huánuco
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Peru
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Yaru
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Peru
China
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
Origin
16th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Quechumaran Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Andean Equatorial
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Quechua
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Quechua
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
quec1387
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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Quechua 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 Quechua and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Quechua and Tibetan language. Quechua word for "Hello" is Rimaykullayki or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Quechua Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Quechua vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Quechua vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Quechua 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 Quechua and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Quechua and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Quechua is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.