Countries
China, Nepal
Georgia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States of America
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
Cabinet of Georgia
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.
- Georgian language has borrowed many words from Arabic, Persian and Turkish languages.
- Georgian language does not distinguish between 'he/him', 'she/her' and 'it', only masculine form is used.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Armenian and Azerbaijani Languages
Derived From
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Anatolian Languages
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Georgian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Georgian script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
გამარჯობა (gamarjoba)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
გმადლობთ (gmadlobt)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
როგორა ხარ? (rogora khar?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ძილი ნებისა (dzili nebisa)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
საღამო მშვიდობისა (saghamo mshvidobisa)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
დილა მშვიდობისა (dila mshvidobisa)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
გთხოვთ (gt’khovt’)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ბოდიში (bodishi)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ნახვამდის (nakhvamdis)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
მე შენ მიყვარხარ (me shen miq’varkhar)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
უკაცრავად (uk’atsravad)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Judaeo-Georgian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Belgium, Georgia, Israel, Russia, United States of America
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Kartlian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Kartli
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Pshavian
Where They Speak
China
Pshavi
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ქართული ენა
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Common Kartvelian, Gruzinski, Kartuli
French Name
tibétain
géorgien
German Name
Tibetisch
Georgisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kʰɑrtʰuli ɛnɑ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Georgians
Origin
c. 650
5th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Kartvelian Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Southern
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Georgian, Classical Old Georgian, Middle Georgian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Georgian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Georgian Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
nucl1302
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative, Synthetic
Tibetan and Georgian 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 Georgian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Georgian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Georgian word for "Thank You" is გმადლობთ (gmadlobt). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Georgian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Georgian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Georgian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Georgian 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 Georgian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Georgian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Georgian time required is 44 weeks.