Countries
China, Nepal
Philippines
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
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
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
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.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
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Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
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Cebuano-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)
Hoy
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Salamat
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Maayong Buntag
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Palihug
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ikasubo ko
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Babay
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Boholano
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bohol
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
southern Leyte
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
North Kana
Where They Speak
China
northern part of Leyte
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
tibétain
cebuano
German Name
Tibetisch
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Cebuano people
Origin
c. 650
16th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Cebuano
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Cebuano Sign Language
ISO 639 1
bo
No data Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
cebu1242
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Cebuano 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 Cebuano greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Cebuano language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Cebuano word for "Thank You" is Salamat. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Cebuano Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Cebuano Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Cebuano difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Cebuano 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 Cebuano are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Cebuano, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Cebuano time required is 3 weeks.