Countries
China, Nepal
Philippines
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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
Commission on the Filipino Language
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.
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Ilocano-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Kablaaw
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Agyamanak
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kumusta?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Naimbag a rabii
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Naimbag a sardam
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Naimbag a malem
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Naimbag a bigat
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
mangngegda
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Agpakawanak
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Pakada
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ayayatenka
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Maawan-dayawen
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Balangao
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Philippines
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Bontoc
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Philippines
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
China
Not present
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ilokano
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Ilokano, Iloko
French Name
tibétain
ilocano
German Name
Tibetisch
Ilokano-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[iːloˈkɑno]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Ilocano people
Origin
c. 650
18th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Ilocano
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Ilocano Sign Language
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
Glottocode
tibe1272
ilok1237
Linguasphere
No data Available
31-CBA-a
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Ilocano 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 Ilocano greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Ilocano language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Ilocano word for "Thank You" is Agyamanak. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Ilocano Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Ilocano Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Ilocano difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Ilocano 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 Ilocano are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Ilocano, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Ilocano time required is 44 weeks.