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Tibetan vs Spanish


Countries

Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
46  
1
2  
13

National Language
Spain  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America  
Asia  

Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
  • Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
  • 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
French Language  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Latin  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27  
9
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
22  
12
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
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
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
Buenas Noches  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Bonne soirée  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Buenos Días  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Por Favor  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
triste  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Mexico  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00  
6
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Cuba  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00  
35
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Puerto Rico  
China  

How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
21  
19
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
489.00 million  
3
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
6.15 %  
3
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
410.00 million  
2
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
89.50 million  
9
6.00 million  
99+

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

Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
espagnol; castillan  
tibétain  

German Name
Spanisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Spanish people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
210 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Romance  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
2  
2
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Spanish  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
es  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
spa  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
spa  
tib  

ISO 639 3
spa  
bod  

ISO 639 6
spa  
bod  

Glottocode
stan1288  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
51-AAA-b  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic  
-  

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Spanish and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Spanish vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Spanish and Tibetan language. History of Spanish language states that this language originated in 210 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 Spanish and Tibetan Language History.

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

Spanish vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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