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Tibetan and Yoruba


Yoruba and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Benin, Nigeria  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Nigeria  

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

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Yoruba Academy  

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.
  
  • One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
  • In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Owo and Itsekiri languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
12  
9

How Many Consonants
30  
20
17  
7

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
30 weeks  
10

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Ẹ n lẹ  

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Bawo ni o se wa  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Kasun layọ o  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
ka a ale  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
e kaasan  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
e kaaro  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Jowo  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
binu  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
mo nifẹ rẹ  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
mo tọrọ gafara  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Itsekiri  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Ede  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Benin, Togo  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
800,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Ulukwumi  

Where They Speak
China  
Nigeria  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
10,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
20  
18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
30.00 million  
36

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.42 %  
34

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
28.00 million  
29

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
30.00 million  
26

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Yariba, Yooba  

French Name
tibétain  
yoruba  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Yoruba-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[jòɾùbá]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Yoruba people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
4 BC  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Western Sudanic  

Branch
-  
Kwa  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Yorùbá  

Language Position
29  
27
49  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Yoruba Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
yo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
yor  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
yor  

ISO 639 3
bod  
yor  

ISO 639 6
bod  
yor  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
yoru1245  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Analytic, Isolating  

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

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Tibetan and Yoruba Speaking population

Tibetan and Yoruba speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Yoruba languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Yoruba Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Yoruba language is 0.42 %. 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 Yoruba on Tibetan vs Yoruba where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Yoruba Language Codes

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

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