Countries
China, Nepal
Armenian Highland
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
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Greek
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Armenian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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)
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
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not Applicable
Where They Speak
China
Not Applicable
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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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
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[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Armenians
Origin
c. 650
late 5th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
arme1241
Linguasphere
No data Available
57-AAA-a
Language Type
Not Available
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Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Tibetan and Armenian 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 Armenian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Armenian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Armenian word for "Thank You" is Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Armenian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Armenian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Armenian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Armenian 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 Armenian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Armenian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Armenian time required is 44 weeks.