Countries
India
China, Nepal
National Language
India
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
- 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.
Similar To
Kannada Language
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Kannada Script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Namaskara
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Mast Upakara.
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Yencha Ullar?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
yedde rathre
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
yedde baiyya
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
yedde madhyana
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
yedde kaande
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Daya maltadu
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Yenna thapu aandu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Barpe
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Kshamisi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
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Dialect 2
Jain
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Girijan
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
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Native Name
Tulu
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
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tibétain
German Name
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Tibetisch
Pronunciation
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Ethnicity
Tuluva
tibetan people
Language Family
Dravidian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
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Tibeto-Burman
Branch
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Tulu
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
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Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 2/T
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bod
ISO 639 2/B
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tib
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tulu1258
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
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Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tulu and Tibetan 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 Tulu and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tulu and Tibetan language. Tulu word for "Hello" is Namaskara or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Tulu Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tulu vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Tulu vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tulu Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Tulu and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tulu and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tulu is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.