Countries
China, Nepal
Cambodia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam
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
Australia, France, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
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.
- Khmer is not the tonal language.
- Khmer language has borrowed philisophical, administrative and technical vocabulary from Sanskrit and Pali.
Similar To
Not Available
Lao Language
Derived From
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Pali and Sanskrit Languages
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Khmer-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Khmer
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ND
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
អ្នកសុខសប្បាយទេ
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ND
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ND
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ND
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ND
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ND
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ND
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ND
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ND
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ND
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Khmer
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Cambodia, France, Thailand, United States of America
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Khmer Krom
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Vietnam
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Western Khmer
Where They Speak
China
Cambodia, Thailand
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ភាសាខ្មែរ (bhāsā khmɛ̄r)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cambodian, Khmer
French Name
tibétain
khmer central
German Name
Tibetisch
Kambodschanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[pʰiːəsaː kʰmaːe]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Khmer, Northern Khmer
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Khmer
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Khmer
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
khme1253
Linguasphere
No data Available
Not Available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Analytic, Isolating
Tibetan and Khmer 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 Khmer greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Khmer language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Khmer word for "Thank You" is សូមអរគុណអ្នក (saum arkoun anak). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Khmer Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Khmer Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Khmer difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Khmer 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 Khmer are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Khmer, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Khmer time required is 44 weeks.