Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Latvia
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Latvia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Latvian State Language Center
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.
- The first written form of Latvian dates from 16th century was found in religious texts.
- The old latvian language was based on the a Gothic script.
Similar To
Not Available
Lithuanian Language
Derived From
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Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Sveiki
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Paldies
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kā jums klājas?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Ar labunakti
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labvakar
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Labdien
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Labrīt
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
lūdzu
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Piedodiet!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Uz redzēšanos
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Es tevi mīlu
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Piedodiet!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Livonian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Latvia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Middle Latvian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Latvia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
High Latvian
Where They Speak
China
France, Latvia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
latviešu valoda
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lettish
French Name
tibétain
letton
German Name
Tibetisch
Lettisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Latvians or Letts
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Baltic
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Latvian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Latvian Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
latv1249
Linguasphere
No data Available
54-AAB-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Tibetan and Latvian 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 Latvian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Latvian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Latvian word for "Thank You" is Paldies. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Latvian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Latvian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Latvian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Latvian 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 Latvian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Latvian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Latvian time required is 44 weeks.