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Tibetan vs Turkish


Turkish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
11  
5

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Turkey  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia, Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Turkish Language Association  

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.
  
  • Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
  • Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Azerbaijani Language  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Merhaba  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
teşekkür ederim  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Nasılsın?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
İyi Geceler  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
İyi Akşamlar  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Tünaydın  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
lütfen  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
üzgünüm  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Seni seviyorum  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Afedersiniz  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Azerbaijani Turkish  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
26,000,000.00  
25

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Crimean Turkish  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
480,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Gagauz  

Where They Speak
China  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
140,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
9  
9

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
75.00 million  
23

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.95 %  
22

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
60.00 million  
20

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
15.00 million  
34

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Türkçe  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Anatolian, Türkisch  

French Name
tibétain  
turc  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Türkisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Turkish  

History

Origin
c. 650  
c. 1350  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Turkic Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Turkic  

Branch
-  
Southwestern(Oghuz)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)  

Language Position
29  
27
19  
17

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Turkish Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
tr  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
tur  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
tur  

ISO 639 3
bod  
tur  

ISO 639 6
bod  
tur  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
nucl1301  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
44-AAB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Synthetic  

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Tibetan and Turkish Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Turkish language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Turkish language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Turkish language states that this language originated in c. 1350. 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 Turkish Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Turkish Difficulty

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

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