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Tibetan vs Italian


Italian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
7  
8

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)  

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.
  
  • One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
  • Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
French and Portuguese Languages  

Derived From
-  
Latin  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
21  
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
16  
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
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
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
ciao  

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Come stai?  

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
buonasera  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
buon pomeriggio  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Per Favore  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
scusate  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Ti amo  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Scusami  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Romanesco  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Lazio  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
3,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Central Italian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
5,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Tuscan  

Where They Speak
China  
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
69,000,000.00  
11

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
15  
14

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
78.00 million  
21

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.90 %  
23

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
64.00 million  
18

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
14.00 million  
36

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Italiano  

French Name
tibétain  
italien  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Italienisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[itaˈljaːno]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Italians  

History

Origin
c. 650  
960 BC  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Romance  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Italian  

Language Position
29  
27
27  
25

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
it  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
ita  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
ita  

ISO 639 3
bod  
ita  

ISO 639 6
bod  
itas  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
ital1282  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
51-AAA-q  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional, Synthetic  

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Tibetan and Italian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Italian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Italian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Italian language states that this language originated in 960 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 Italian Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Italian Difficulty

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

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