Tibetan and Greek

Tibetan

Greek

Greek and Tibetan

Countries

China, Nepal

Cyprus, European Union, Greece

Total No. Of Countries

National Language

Nepal, Tibet

Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Roman Empire

Speaking Continents

Asia

Asia, Europe

Minority Language

China, India, Nepal

Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine

Regulated By

Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language

Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)

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.

Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.

Similar To

Not Available

Armenian

Derived From

Not Available

Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

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Greek-Alphabets.jpg#200

Alphabets

Phonology

How Many Vowels

How Many Consonants

Scripts

Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille

Arabic, Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Time Taken to Learn

24 weeks

44 weeks

Greetings

Hello

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)

γεια σας (geia sas)

Thank You

ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)

ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)

How Are You?

ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)

πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)

Good Night

གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)

Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)

Good Evening

དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།

καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)

Good Afternoon

ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།

Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)

Good Morning

སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)

καλημέρα (kali̱méra)

Please

thu-je zig / ku-chee.

παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)

Sorry

ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)

συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)

Bye

ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)

αντίο (antío)

I Love You

ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)

Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)

Excuse Me

དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།

Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Central Tibetan

Cappadocian Greek

Where They Speak

China, India, Nepal

Greece

How Many People Speak

1,200,000.00

2,800.00

99+

Dialect 2

Khams Tibetan

Griko

Where They Speak

Bhutan, China

Italy

How Many People Speak

1,400,000.00

50,000.00

Dialect 3

Amdo Tibetan

Mariupol

Where They Speak

China

Ukraine

How Many People Speak

1,800,000.00

Not Available

Total No. Of Dialects

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

1.20 million

99+

13.00 million

99+

Speaking Population

Not Available

0.18 %

99+

Native Speakers

1.20 million

99+

13.00 million

99+

Native Name

བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)

ελληνικά

Alternative Names

Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang

Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic

French Name

tibétain

grec moderne (après 1453)

German Name

Tibetisch

Neugriechisch

Pronunciation

Not Available

[eliniˈka]

Ethnicity

tibetan people

Greeks or Hellenes

History

Origin

c. 650

1500 BC

Language Family

Sino-Tibetan Family

Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Tibeto-Burman

Hellenic

Branch

Not Available

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan

Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek

Standard Forms

Standard Tibetan

Modern Greek

Language Position

Not Available

99+

Signed Forms

Tibetan Sign Language

Greek Sign Language

Scope

Not Available

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

bod

ell

ISO 639 2/B

tib

gre

ISO 639 3

bod

ell

ISO 639 6

Not Available

ells

Glottocode

tibe1272

gree1276

Linguasphere

No data Available

56-AAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Not Available

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Fusional, Synthetic

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All Tibetan and Greek 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 Greek dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Greek language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Greek Dialects are spoken in different Greek speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Greek Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Greek dialects include: Cappadocian Greek , Griko. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Greek Speaking population

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Tibetan and Greek Language Codes

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