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Tibetan vs Azerbaijani


Azerbaijani vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
7  
8

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Azerbaijan, Gambia  

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  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Azerbaijan 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.
  
  • Even though Official language of Azerbaijan is Azerbaijani, the Business language is Azerbaijani, English and Russian.
  • Azerbaijan is known as “Land of Fire”, is country with unique culture and spellbinding history.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Turkish  

Derived From
-  
Osmanly language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Azerbaijani-alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
9  
6

How Many Consonants
30  
20
23  
13

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Axşamınız xeyir  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Günortanız Xeyir  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
lütfən  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
üzr  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Mən səni sevirəm  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Derbent  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Russia  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
37,000,000.00  
20

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Gazakh  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Azerbaijan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
37,000,000.00  
18

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Baku  

Where They Speak
China  
Azerbaijan  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
37.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
33  
26

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
26.00 million  
39

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.34 %  
39

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
23.00 million  
34

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
25.00 million  
27

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Azərbaycan dili / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Azeri, Azari, Azeri Turkish, Azerbaijani Turkish  

French Name
tibétain  
azéri  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Aserbeidschanisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ɑzærbɑjdʒɑn dili]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Azerbaijani  

History

Origin
c. 650  
16th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Turkic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Turkic  

Branch
-  
Southwestern(Oghuz)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Azerbaijani  

Language Position
29  
27
38  
35

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Azerbaijani  

Scope
-  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
az  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
aze  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
aze  

ISO 639 3
bod  
aze  

ISO 639 6
bod  
aze  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
azer1255  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
44-AAB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Agglutinative  

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Tibetan and Azerbaijani Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Azerbaijani language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Azerbaijani language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Azerbaijani language states that this language originated in 16th Century. 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 Azerbaijani Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Azerbaijani Difficulty

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

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