Countries
Benin, Nigeria
China, Nepal
National Language
Nigeria
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal 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
Owo and Itsekiri languages
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Yoruba-Alphabet.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Ẹ n lẹ
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
e dupe
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Kasun layọ o
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ka a ale
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
e kaasan
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
e kaaro
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Jowo
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
binu
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
mo nifẹ rẹ
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Ede
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Benin, Togo
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Ulukwumi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Yorùbá
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
yoruba
tibétain
German Name
Yoruba-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
Yoruba people
tibetan people
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Yorùbá
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
yoru1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
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Yoruba 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 Yoruba and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Yoruba and Tibetan language. Yoruba word for "Hello" is Ẹ n lẹ or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Yoruba Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Yoruba vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Yoruba vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Yoruba 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 Yoruba and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Yoruba and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Yoruba is 30 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.