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Tibetan and Armenian


Armenian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Armenian Highland  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Armenian National Academy of Sciences  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
  • Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Greek  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
38  
20

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
32  
22

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Armenian manuscript  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
12  
9

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Բարեւ (Barev)  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Բարի օր (Bari or)  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
կներեք (knerek’)  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Ց'տեսություն  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Eastern Armenian  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Western Armenian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
6,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Eastern Armenian  

Where They Speak
China  
-  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
6,000,000.00  
34

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
2  
2

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.22 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
7.00 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Հայերէն (Hayeren)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri  

French Name
tibétain  
arménien  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Armenisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Armenians  

History

Origin
c. 650  
late 5th century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian  

Language Position
29  
27
14  
13

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Armenian  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
hy  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
hye  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
arm  

ISO 639 3
bod  
hye  

ISO 639 6
bod  
hye  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
arme1241  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
57-AAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative, Synthetic  

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All Tibetan and Armenian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Armenian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Armenian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Armenian Dialects are spoken in different Armenian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Armenian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Armenian dialects include: Eastern Armenian , Western Armenian. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Armenian Speaking population

Tibetan and Armenian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Armenian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Armenian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Armenian language is 0.22 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Armenian on Tibetan vs Armenian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Armenian Language Codes

Tibetan and Armenian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Armenian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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