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Tibetan vs Assamese


Assamese vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Bangladesh, India  

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

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Bangladesh, Bhutan  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Asam Sahitya Sabha  

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.
  
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
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Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Bengali and Oriya  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
52  
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
11  
8

How Many Consonants
30  
20
41  
30

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Bengali  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
nomoskaar  

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
aapuni kene aase?  

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
subha gadhuli  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
subha abeli  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
anugroha kori  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
moi ḍukkhita  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
moi tomaak bhaalpaao  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
kyoma koribo  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Kamrupi  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Western Assam  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Goalpariya  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Western Assam  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
16,000,000.00  
30

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Bhakatiya  

Where They Speak
China  
Assam  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
16,000,000.00  
27

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.24 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
15.00 million  
40

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
15.00 million  
34

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya  

French Name
tibétain  
assamais  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Assamesisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Assamese people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
7th century A.D  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Kamarupa  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Assamese  

Language Position
29  
27
65  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Assamese  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
as  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
asm  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
asm  

ISO 639 3
bod  
asm  

ISO 639 6
bod  
asm  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
assa1263  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
59-AAF-w  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Tibetan and Assamese Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Assamese language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Assamese language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Assamese language states that this language originated in 7th century A.D. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Assamese Language History.

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Tibetan and Assamese 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 Assamese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Assamese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Assamese word for "Thank You" is ḍhonyobaaḍ. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Assamese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Assamese Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Assamese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Assamese 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 Assamese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Assamese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Assamese time required is 44 weeks.

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