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Russian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Russian


Countries

Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

National Language
Russia  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Afganistan  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
  • In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
  • 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33  
15
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10  
7
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
30  
20

Scripts
Cyrillic  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
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
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

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

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

Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  

I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
30,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Olonets  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Olonets  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Novgorod  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Novgorod  
China  

How Many People Speak
154,000,000.00  
2
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
13  
13
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
276.00 million  
6
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
2.33 %  
9
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
166.00 million  
8
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
6.00 million  
99+

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

Alternative Names
Russki  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
russe  
tibétain  

German Name
Russisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Russians  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1000 AD  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Slavic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Eastern  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old East Slavic  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Russian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
7  
7
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Russian  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
ru  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
rus  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
rus  
tib  

ISO 639 3
rus  
bod  

ISO 639 6
rus  
bod  

Glottocode
russ1263  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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Russian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Russian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Russian and Tibetan language. History of Russian language states that this language originated in 1000 AD 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 Russian and Tibetan Language History.

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

Russian vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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