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Tulu vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Tulu


Countries

Countries
India  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

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
-  
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  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
51  
30
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
16  
13
5  
2

How Many Consonants
35  
25
30  
20

Scripts
Kannada Script  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Brahmin tulu  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
2,000,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Jain  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,900,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Girijan  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Tamil Nadu  
China  

How Many People Speak
2.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.01 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.70 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
2.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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
-  
tibétain  

German Name
Tulu  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈtulu]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Tuluva  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
14  
c. 650  

Language Family
Dravidian Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Tulu  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
23  
21
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Tulu  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
tcy  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
tul  
tib  

ISO 639 3
tcy  
bod  

ISO 639 6
tcy  
bod  

Glottocode
tulu1258  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Tulu and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Tulu vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Tulu and Tibetan language. History of Tulu language states that this language originated in 14 whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. 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 Tulu and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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