Countries
China, Nepal
Zimbabwe
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Shona-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Mhoro
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Waita zvako
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Manheru
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Masikati
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Mangwanani
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Ndineurombo
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Hwesa
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Zimbabwe
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Karanga
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
southern Zimbabwe
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Zezuru
Where They Speak
China
central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
chiShona
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
tibétain
shona
German Name
Tibetisch
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Shona people
Origin
c. 650
20th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Benue-Congo
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Shona
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Shona
Glottocode
tibe1272
core1255
Linguasphere
No data Available
99-AUT-a
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Shona 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 Shona greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Shona language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Shona word for "Thank You" is Waita zvako. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Shona Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Shona Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Shona difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Shona 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 Shona are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Shona, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Shona time required is 30 weeks.