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Tibetan vs Akan


Akan vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Ghana, Ivory coast  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Ghana  

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

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Africa  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Benin, United States of America  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Akan Orthography Committee  

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • Ghana has over 100 ethnic groups living, and Akan is one of the largest tribe.
  • Akan language came in South America, notably Suriname and Jamaica through slave trade.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Ewe and Ga-Dangme Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
21  
3

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
30  
20
16  
6

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
ete-sen  

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
wo ho te sɛn?  

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
maadwo  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
maaha  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
wae  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Kafra  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Me doכ wo  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
mepa wo kyɛw  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Asante  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Ghana  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
9,000,000.00  
39

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Akuapem  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Ghana  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
9,000,000.00  
38

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Fante  

Where They Speak
China  
Ghana  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,900,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.17 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
11.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
21.00 million  
29

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Akan  

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

French Name
tibétain  
akan  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Akan-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ˈaːkã]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Akan people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
15  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Niger-Congo Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
-  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Akan  

Language Position
29  
27
104  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Akan Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ak  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
aka  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
aka  

ISO 639 3
bod  
aka  

ISO 639 6
bod  
aka  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
akan1251  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Tibetan and Akan Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Akan language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Akan language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Akan language states that this language originated in 15. 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 Tibetan and Akan Language History.

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Tibetan and Akan 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 Tibetan and Akan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Akan language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Akan word for "Thank You" is meda ase. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Akan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Akan Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Akan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Akan 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 Tibetan and Akan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Akan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Akan time required is 44 weeks.

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