Countries
Malaysia, Mauritius, Puducherry, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
China, Nepal
National Language
Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, kerala, Puducherry
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Canada, Malaysia, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Official language Commission of Government of Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur Tamil University
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Tamil is the oldest language in the world. Tamil was spoken in South India more than 5000 years ago.
- The first legally recognized Classical Language of India is Tamil.
- 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
Malayalam
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tamil
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
வணக்கம் (Vanakkam)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
நன்றி (Naṉṟi)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
நீங்கள் எப்படி இருக்கிறீர்கள்? (Nīṅkaḷ eppaṭi irukkiṟīrkaḷ?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
நல்ல இரவு (Good night) / irravu vanakkam (Good night)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
நல்ல மாலை (Nalla mālai)/ மாலை (irravu vanakkam)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
பிற்பகல் வணக்கம் (perpagal vanakkam)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
காலை வணக்கம் (Kaalai Vanakkam)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
தயவு (Tayavu)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
மன்னிக்கவும் (Maṉṉikkavum)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
சென்று வருகிறேன் (Sendru Varukiren)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
நான் உன்னை காதலிக்கிறேன் (Naan Unnai Kadalikiren)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
என்னை மன்னியுங்கள் (Eṉṉai maṉṉiyuṅkaḷ)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Kongu
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kongu
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Madurai Tamil
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Madurai, South Tamil Nadu
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Tirunelveli Tamil
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Tamil Nadu, Thoothukudi, Tirunelveli
China
How Many People Speak
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Speaking Population
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Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
தமிழ்
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Damulian, Tamal, Tamalsan, Tambul, Tamili
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
tamoul
tibétain
German Name
Tamil
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[t̪ɐmɨɻ]
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Ethnicity
Tamil people or Tamilans
tibetan people
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tamil and Middle Tamil
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Tamil
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Signed Tamil
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
tam
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Glottocode
tami1289, oldt1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
tami1289
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tamil 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 Tamil and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tamil and Tibetan language. Tamil word for "Hello" is வணக்கம் (Vanakkam) or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Tamil Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tamil vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Tamil vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tamil 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 Tamil and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tamil and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tamil is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.