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Tibetan vs Kirundi


Kirundi vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Burma  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Burundi, Gambia  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa, Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan 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.
  
  • Kirundi language is tonal, since it has high and low essential tones.
  • Kirundi Language is referred as a language where Meeussen's rule is active, this rule describes a certain pattern of tonal change in Bantu languages.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Kinyarwanda Language  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
21  
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
19  
9

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
36 weeks  
13

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Mwiriwe  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Mwiriwe  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Ndagusavye  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Ndasubiza  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
N’agasaga  

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Rwanda-Rundi  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
20,000,000.00  
29

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Ha  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Tanzania  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
990,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Shubi  

Where They Speak
China  
Tanzania  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
153,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
8.80 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
12.00 million  
38

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

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

French Name
tibétain  
rundi  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Kirundi  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[kɪˈrʊndi]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1500  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Kirundi  

Language Position
29  
27
86  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Kirundi Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
rn  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
run  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
run  

ISO 639 3
bod  
run  

ISO 639 6
bod  
run  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
rund1242  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Tibetan and Kirundi Language History

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

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

Tibetan vs Kirundi Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Kirundi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kirundi 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 Kirundi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kirundi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kirundi time required is 36 weeks.

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