Countries
Zimbabwe
China, Nepal
National Language
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
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
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
- 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
Kalanga and Nambya Language
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
Mhoro
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Waita zvako
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Wakadini zvako?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Urare zvakanaka
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Manheru
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Masikati
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Mangwanani
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Ndinokumbirawo
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ndineurombo
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ndinokuda
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Pamusoro
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Hwesa
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Karanga
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
southern Zimbabwe
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Zezuru
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
China
Native Name
chiShona
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
shona
tibétain
German Name
Schona-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ʃoːna]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Shona people
tibetan people
Origin
20th century
c. 650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Shona
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Shona
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
core1255
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUT-a
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Shona 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 Shona and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Shona and Tibetan language. Shona word for "Hello" is Mhoro or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Shona Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Shona vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Shona vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Shona 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 Shona and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Shona and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Shona is 30 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.