Countries
China, Nepal
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
France
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Africa, Canada
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
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.
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
Similar To
Not Available
Italian Language
Derived From
Not Available
Latin
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
bonjour
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Merci
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Comment allez-vous?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
bonne Nuit
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
bonsoir
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
bon Après-Midi
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bonjour
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
S'il vous plaît
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
désolé
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
au revoir
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Je t'aime
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Excuse Moi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Quebec French
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
African French
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Africa
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Swiss French
Where They Speak
China
Northeast France, Switzerland
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
français
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Français
French Name
tibétain
français
German Name
Tibetisch
Französisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
Origin
c. 650
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Romance
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old French, Middle French and French
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard French
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
fras
Glottocode
tibe1272
stan1290
Linguasphere
No data Available
51-AAA-i
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Tibetan and French 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 French greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and French language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or French word for "Thank You" is Merci. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and French Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs French Difficulty
The Tibetan vs French difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and French 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 French are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and French, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn French time required is 24 weeks.