Countries
China, Nepal
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Ethiopia
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Selam
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Dehina newot?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Dehna dur
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
i'ndemin adäru
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
i'bakwon
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
aznallehu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
tschao
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Gondar
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gondar
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Ethiopia
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Showa
Where They Speak
China
Ethiopia
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
tibétain
amharique
German Name
Tibetisch
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Amharas
Origin
c. 650
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Semitic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Amharic
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Glottocode
tibe1272
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
Tibetan and Amharic 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 Tibetan and Amharic greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Amharic language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Amharic word for "Thank You" is amesege'nallo'. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Amharic Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Amharic Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Amharic difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Amharic 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 Tibetan and Amharic are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Amharic, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Amharic time required is 44 weeks.