Countries
China, Nepal
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
North Korea, South Korea
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
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
The National Institute of the Korean 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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
Similar To
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Chinese and Japanese languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Hangul
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
안녕 (annyeong)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Jeju
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
South Korea
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Gyeongsang
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
South Korea
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Hamgyŏng
Where They Speak
China
China, North Korea
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
한국어 (조선말)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
French Name
tibétain
coréen
German Name
Tibetisch
Koreanisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Koreans
Origin
c. 650
Before 1st century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Koreanic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Korean Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
kore1280
Linguasphere
No data Available
45-AAA
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
Tibetan and Korean 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 Korean greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Korean language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Korean word for "Thank You" is 감사합니다 (gamsahabnida). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Korean Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Korean Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Korean difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Korean 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 Korean are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Korean, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Korean time required is 88 weeks.