Countries
China, Nepal
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Mandarin
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Wu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
China, United States of America
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Yue
Where They Speak
China
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
chinois
German Name
Tibetisch
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Han
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Chinese
Language Position
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
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Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
79-AAA
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Tibetan and Chinese 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 Chinese greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Chinese language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Chinese word for "Thank You" is 谢谢 (Xièxiè). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Chinese Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Chinese Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Chinese difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Chinese 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 Chinese are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Chinese, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Chinese time required is 88 weeks.