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Tibetan vs Greek


Greek vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Cyprus, European Union, Greece  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Albania, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Roman Empire  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Turkey, Ukraine  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Center for the Greek language (Κέντρον Ελληνικής Γλώσσας)  

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.
  
  • Greek is the longest documented language of all the Indo-European Langauges.
  • The official language of education in the Roman Empire was Greek.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Armenian  

Derived From
-  
Latin  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
24  
6

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
7  
4

How Many Consonants
30  
20
17  
7

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
γεια σας (geia sas)  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
πώς είσαι (pó̱s eísai)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Καληνυχτα (Kali̱nychta)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
καλησπέρα (kali̱spéra)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Καλὸ ἀπόγευμα (Kaló apóyevma)  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
καλημέρα (kali̱méra)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
παρακαλώ (parakaló̱)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
συγνώμη (sygnó̱mi̱)  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
αντίο (antío)  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Σε αγαπώ (Se agapó̱)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Με συγχωρείτε! (Me synhoríte)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Cappadocian Greek  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Greece  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
2,800.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Griko  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Italy  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
50,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Mariupol  

Where They Speak
China  
Ukraine  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
13,000,000.00  
28

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
25  
21

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.18 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
13.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
13.00 million  
37

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
ελληνικά  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Ellinika, Graecae, Grec, Greco, Neo-Hellenic, Romaic  

French Name
tibétain  
grec moderne (après 1453)  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Neugriechisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[eliniˈka]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Greeks or Hellenes  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1500 BC  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Hellenic  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek, Ancient Greek, Koine Greek and Medieval Greek  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Modern Greek  

Language Position
29  
27
74  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Greek Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
el  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
ell  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
gre  

ISO 639 3
bod  
ell  

ISO 639 6
bod  
ells  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
gree1276  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
56-AAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Tibetan and Greek Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Greek language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Greek language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Greek language states that this language originated in 1500 BC. 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 Greek Language History.

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Tibetan and Greek 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 Greek greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Greek language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Greek word for "Thank You" is ευχαριστώ (ef̱charistó̱). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Greek Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Greek Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Greek difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Greek 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 Greek are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Greek, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Greek time required is 44 weeks.

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