WIKITONGUES: Tenzin speaking Tibetan

This video was recorded by Daniel Bogre Udell and Nawang Tsering in New York City, USA.

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[tenzinc]

I'm a tibetan myself and I'd like to add that there's also another way of speaking tibetan called "ghesa" which translates to a "cleaner & more respectful" way of speaking and the words are slightly different in that it sounds more calm and relaxed when speaking in gesha form. This Tibetan lady is speaking in the normal day-to-day tibetan language since she's from india but tibetans from tibet sound different because of their dialects.

[anuranglug]

Its unique, no Hindi, no mandarin, just TIBETAN.

[tenwang]

I am very proud of you for what you have done towards our cause by bringing more awareness to other people by playing role model. I think we definitely more Tibetans to involve like you by wearing our traditional dresses and introducing the brief history of Tibet and language and others. Please keep up your great works!

[Mytishchiball]

Those who think that Tibetan is similar to Chinese. It's like saying Russian and Hindi are similar because they are both Indo-European languages

[thiev__v]

For the sake of your sanity, dont ever look up how to write Tibetan.

[anuranglug]

The first two lines were

བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tashi Delek
Hello

ངའི་མིང་ལ་བསྟན་འཛིན་རེད།
Ngai Ming la Tenzin re
My name is Tenzin.

[chaosPneumatic]

Why does every video about an obscure language have to have comments that go "sounds like a mix between ___ and ___"? It doesn't sound like anything but itself!

[flowex]

In my class 4 people are named as tenzin and all Tibet :0

[Xzyel.]

Really unqiue in fact the only language that comes to mind when hearing Tibetan is Korean actually because the intotation and pacing.

[Brillemeister]

Imagine this as the official language of Tibet. Thanks for sharing. God bless

[gareginnzhdehhimself]

It's distantly related to Chinese and you can tell, but it sounds so different from Mandarin at the same time. Lots of unique sounds.

[javiersandoval]

I would like to learn Tibetan, sound really beautiful

[jaanc]

10% of the words sound like a mix of Hokkien and Shanghainese (a.k.a. Minnan and Wu). Sounds so beautiful and archaic in a way. Really like it!

[shahiirosan]

I would like to suggest adding Tibetan subtitles and transcription

[Tattletale]

Once you learn a language, you will never forget it, even if you haven't use it for many years.

[lokhimtam]

As a native Cantonese speaker, it sounds like a mixture of Chinese, Korean and the Southeast Asian languages

[cbrtdgh]

Sounds nothing like Mandarin or Cantonese to me since there aren't harsh changes between the 4-7 tones that you have in Mandarin/Cantonese - according to Wiki Tibetan only has a high and low tone. Also it doesn't have so many sh/ch/zh sounds... For me it flows much more nicely, I quite like the sound.

[stanley]

Wonder why you guys are saying Tibetan sounds like Chinese. As a mandarin speaker, it sounds 0% like Mandarin to me.

[benarthurhuzz]

There are so many dialects and this is most common accents around the people who has been living in refugee...

[ryanchon]

the rhythm reminds me a lot of Mongolian, though I know the two are very different