Countries
China, Nepal
Basque Autonomous Community, Navarre
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
France, Spain
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Euskaltzaindia, National Languages Committee
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 Basque language is the oldest European language.
- Basque alphabet include many Roman letters.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Spanish
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Basque-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kaixo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Eskerrik asko
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Zer moduz?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Gabon
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Arratsalde on
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Arratsalde on
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Egun on
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mesedez
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Barkatu
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Agur
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Maite zaitut
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Barkatu
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Navarro-Lapurdian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
France
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Souletin
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
France, Soule, Spain
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Biscayan
Where They Speak
China
Spain
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Euskara
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Euskara, Euskera, Vascuense
French Name
tibétain
basque
German Name
Tibetisch
Baskisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[bɑːsk]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Basque people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Vasconic Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Basque, Aquitanian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Basque
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Basque Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
basq1248
Linguasphere
No data Available
40-AAA-a
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
Tibetan and Basque 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 Basque greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Basque language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Basque word for "Thank You" is Eskerrik asko. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Basque Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Basque Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Basque difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Basque 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 Basque are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Basque, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Basque time required is 88 weeks.