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Tibetan vs Welsh


Welsh vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Wales  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Wales  

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  
Argentina, United Kingdom  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Welsh Language Commissioner  

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.
  
  • One of the Celtic language still spoken with great numbers of speakers is Welsh language.
  • Welsh was evolved from British , which was spoken by ancient Britons.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
English Language  

Derived From
-  
British Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
7  
4

How Many Consonants
30  
20
21  
11

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
-  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
30 weeks  
10

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Nos da  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Noswaith dda  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
P'nawn da  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
os gwelwch yn dda  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Mae'n ddrwg gennym  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Dw i'n dy garu di  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Patagonian Welsh  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Argentina  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
38,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Y Wyndodeg  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Gwynedd  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
700,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Y Bowyseg  

Where They Speak
China  
Powys  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
700,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
8  
8

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
7.40 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.24 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
7.40 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
0.70 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Cymraeg / Y Gymraeg  

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

French Name
tibétain  
gallois  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Kymrisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Welsh people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
9th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Celtic  

Branch
-  
Brythonic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Common Brittonic, Old Welsh, Middle Welsh  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Welsh  

Language Position
29  
27
31  
29

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Welsh Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
cy  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
cym  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
wel  

ISO 639 3
bod  
cym  

ISO 639 6
bod  
cym  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
wels1247  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
50-ABA  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Historical  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Verb-Subject-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional  

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Tibetan and Welsh Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Welsh language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Welsh language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Welsh language states that this language originated in 9th Century. 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 Welsh Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Welsh Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Welsh difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Welsh 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 Welsh are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Welsh, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Welsh time required is 30 weeks.

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