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Tibetan vs Bodo


Bodo vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Assam, India   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
1   
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Assam, India   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not Available   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Not Available   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Not Available   

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.
  
  • In ancient times, Bodo language was written using Assamese script and Roman script.
  • Bodo Language is written using Devanagari script since 1963.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Dimasa language, Garo language, Kokborok language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
45   
25

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
20   
17

How Many Consonants
30   
20
25   
15

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Devanagari   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
Not Available   

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
Not Available   

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Not Available   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
Not Available   

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
मोजां हर (Mwjang Hor)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Not Available   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Not Available   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
मोजां फुं (Mwjang Fung)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
अननानै (Onnanwi)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Not Available   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
Not Available   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
अननाइ नों (onnai Nwng)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Not Available   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
(Sønabari) Western Boro dialect   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Bongaigaon, Kokrajhar   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
(Sanzari) Eastern Boro dialect   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Barpeta, Darrang, Kamrup, Nalbari   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
(Hazari) Southern Boro dialect   

Where They Speak
China   
Assam, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
0.60 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
बड़ो (boṛo)   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Bara, Bodi, Boro, Boroni, Kachari, Mech, Meche, Mechi, Meci   

French Name
tibétain   
Not Available   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Not Available   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[bɔɽo]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Bodo, Mech, (Assamese)   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1913   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Not Available   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
Not Available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
Not Available   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
Not Available   

ISO 639 3
bod   
brx   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
bodo1269   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
Not Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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Tibetan and Bodo Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Bodo language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Bodo language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Bodo language states that this language originated in 1913. 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 Bodo Language History.

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Tibetan and Bodo 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 Bodo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Bodo language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Bodo word for "Thank You" is Not Available. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Bodo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Bodo Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Bodo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Bodo 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 Bodo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Bodo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Bodo time required is Not Available.

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