Countries
South Africa
China, Nepal
National Language
South Africa
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Pan South African Language Board
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
- 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
Xhosa Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Sawubona
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ngiyabonga
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
unjani
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
okuhle ebusuku
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
okuhle kusihlwa
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
okuhle ntambama
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
okuhle ekuseni
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Ngiyacela
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Ngiyaxolisa
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ngiyakuthanda wena
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Uxolo
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Qwabe
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gabon, South Africa
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Africa
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Ndebele
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Zimbabwe
China
Native Name
isiZulu
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Isizulu, Zunda
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
zoulou
tibétain
German Name
Zulu-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[zuːlu]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Zulu people
tibetan people
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Benue-Congo
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
urban Zulu
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Deep Zulu
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Zulu Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
zulu1248
tibe1272
Linguasphere
99-AUT-fg
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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Zulu 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 Zulu and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Zulu and Tibetan language. Zulu word for "Hello" is Sawubona or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Zulu Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Zulu vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Zulu vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Zulu 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 Zulu and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Zulu and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Zulu is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.