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Spanish vs Tibetan


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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Latin   
Not Available   

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   
5
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Cuba   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00   
8
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Puerto Rico   
China   

How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00   
9
1,800,000.00   
16

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
Not Available   

Native Speakers
410.00 million   
2
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
89.50 million   
9
Not Available   

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]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
210 BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Romance   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
2   
2
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Spanish   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
stan1288   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
51-AAA-b   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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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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