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Welsh vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Welsh


Countries

Countries
Wales  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Wales  
Nepal, Tibet  

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

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Argentina, United Kingdom  
China, India, Nepal  

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

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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
English Language  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
British Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7  
4
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4  
3
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks  
10
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Patagonian Welsh  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Argentina  
China, India, Nepal  

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

Dialect 2
Y Wyndodeg  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Gwynedd  
Bhutan, China  

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

Dialect 3
Y Bowyseg  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Powys  
China  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.24 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
7.40 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.70 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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

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

French Name
gallois  
tibétain  

German Name
Kymrisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[kəmˈrɑːɨɡ]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Welsh people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
9th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Celtic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Brythonic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

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

Standard Forms
Welsh  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
31  
29
29  
27

Signed Forms
Welsh Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
cy  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
cym  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
wel  
tib  

ISO 639 3
cym  
bod  

ISO 639 6
cym  
bod  

Glottocode
wels1247  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
50-ABA  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
-  

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Welsh and Tibetan Language History

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

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Welsh 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 Welsh and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Welsh and Tibetan language. Welsh word for "Hello" is Helô or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Welsh Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Welsh vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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