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Tibetan vs Telugu


Telugu vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Andra Pradesh, India, Telangana, Yanam  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Andra Pradesh, India  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Karnataka  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Telugu Academy and Official Language Commission of Government of Andhra Pradesh  

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.
  
  • Telugu is the only language in the Eastern world that has every single word that ends with a vowel sound. Telugu language is called "Italian of the East".
  • Telugu is one of the oldest language in India which is 2,400 years old.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Tamil  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
60  
35

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
19  
16

How Many Consonants
30  
20
41  
30

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Telugu Script  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
హలో (Halō)  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
ధన్యవాదాలు (Dhan'yavādālu)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
నువ్వు ఎలా ఉన్నావు? (Nuvvu elā unnāvu?)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
శుభ రాత్రి (Śubha rātri)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
శుభ సాయంత్రం (Śubha sāyantraṁ)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
శుభ మద్యాహ్నం (Śubha madyāhnaṁ)  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
దయచేసి (Dayacēsi)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
క్షమించాలి (Kṣamin̄cāli)  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
బై (Bai)  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
నేను నిన్ను ప్రేమిస్తున్నాను (Nēnu ninnu prēmistunnānu)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
క్షమించండి (Kṣamin̄caṇḍi)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Waddar  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
170,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Chenchu  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Orissa  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
26,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Manna-Dora  

Where They Speak
China  
Andra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
30,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
38  
28

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
80.00 million  
20

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
1.15 %  
16

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
75.00 million  
14

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
తెలుగు (telugu)  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Andhra, Gentoo, Tailangi, Telangire, Telegu, Telgi, Tengu, Terangi, Tolangan  

French Name
tibétain  
télougou  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Telugu-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ˈteluɡu]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Telugu people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 575  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Dravidian Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Early Telugu epigraphy  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Telugu  

Language Position
29  
27
15  
14

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Telugu  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
te  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
tel  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
tel  

ISO 639 3
bod  
tel  

ISO 639 6
bod  
tel  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
telu1262  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Tibetan and Telugu Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Telugu language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Telugu language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Telugu language states that this language originated in c. 575. 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 Telugu Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Telugu Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Telugu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Telugu 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 Telugu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Telugu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Telugu time required is 44 weeks.

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