Countries
Vietnam
China, Nepal
National Language
Vietnam
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Australia, East Asia, North America, Southeast Asia, Western Europe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The vocabulary of Vietnamese language is influenced by Chinese Language.
- The only language in East Asia that uses the Latin alphabet is Vietnamese.
- 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
Chinese Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Chinese Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Xin chào
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Cam on
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Bạn khỏe không?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Chúc ngủ ngon
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Chào buổi tối
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Chào buổi trưa
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Chào buổi sáng
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
xin vui lòng
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Xin lỗi
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Tạm biệt
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
tôi yêu bạn
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Xin loi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northern Vietnamese
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Dong Bac, Haiphong, Hanoi, Red River Delta, Tay Bac
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
North-central Vietnamese
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Mid-Central Vietnamese
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hue, Quang Tri, Thua Thien
China
Native Name
tiếng việt (㗂越)
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Annamese, Ching, Gin, Jing, Kinh, Viet
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
vietnamien
tibétain
German Name
Vietnamesisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[tĭəŋ vìəˀt] (Northern)
[tǐəŋ jìək] (Southern)
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Vietnamese (Kinh) people
tibetan people
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Early Forms
Pre-Vietnamese, Proto-Vietnamese, Archaic Vietnamese, Ancient Vietnamese, Middle Vietnamese, Modern Vietnamese
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Vietnamese
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Vietnamese sign languages
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
viet1252
tibe1272
Linguasphere
46-EBA
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Vietnamese and Tibetan language. Vietnamese word for "Hello" is Xin chào or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Vietnamese Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Vietnamese vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Vietnamese vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Vietnamese 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 Vietnamese and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Vietnamese and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Vietnamese is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.