Countries
China, Nepal
India
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Munda Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Santali-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Henda ho
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Adi Johar
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
संध्यायान
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Boge Setak’
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
দয়া করে
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
দুঃখিত
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Hariau
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Mahali
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Not present
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Not present
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
tibétain
santal
German Name
Tibetisch
Santali
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
c. 650
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austroasiatic Family
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Santali
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
Glottocode
tibe1272
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Santali 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 Santali greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Santali language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Santali word for "Thank You" is Adi Johar. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Santali Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Santali Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Santali difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Santali 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 Santali are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Santali, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Santali time required is 44 weeks.