Looking for practical Tibetan to Lingala phrases? This free guide lists 100 essential sentences for travel, study, work, and everyday conversation. Each line shows the Tibetan phrase first, then the Lingala translation (Lingala) — so you can scan quickly before a trip, class, or video call.
The phrases are grouped into eight topics: greetings and pleasantries, useful phrases for travellers, everyday conversation, directions and getting around, shopping and dining, emergencies and health, work and business, and time, days and numbers. Use the table of contents to jump straight to greetings, directions, dining, emergencies, or numbers. You do not need perfect grammar to start — short, clear sentences often work better than silence when you are learning Lingala.
Tip: pick five Lingala phrases from the greetings section and use them in a real message today. Small daily practice beats cramming before a trip.
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Greetings and pleasantries
Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, and polite introductions for meeting new people.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལགས།
Mbote(Tashi delek)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ།
Melesi(Thukje che)
དགོངས་བསམ་བདེ་ལགས།
Mbote na ntango ya mokolo(Gongsam delek)
དབྱིངས་བསམ་བདེ་ལགས།
Mbote na ntango ya midi(Yingsam delek)
དོན་བསམ་བདེ་ལགས།
Mbote na ntango ya soir(Donsam delek)
གཟིམ་བསམ་བདེ་ལགས།
Malamu na butu(Zimsam delek)
དེ་ལས་བརྗེད།
Tala yo nsima(De las jye)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལགས།
Kende malamu(Tashi delek)
ཁྱེད་ཀྱི་མིང་ག་རེ་རེད།
Nkombo na yo nani?(Khyed-kyi ming ga re)
ངའི་མིང་གི་འདི་ཇོན་ཡིན།
Nkombo na ngai ezali John(Ngai ming gi di John yin)
ཁྱེད་ལ་ངོས་ལེན་གྱི་རེད།
Ozalaki malamu?(Khyed la ngölen gyi re)
ཁྱེད་ལ་བཟོ་བདེ་ལགས།
Nayoki malamu na yo(Khyed la zo delek)
Useful phrases for travellers
Airport, hotel, tickets, and transport phrases for getting around on a trip.
ཁྱེད་རང་དབྱངས་དབྱངས་གཏོང་གི་ཡོད་པས།
Ozali koloba lingala?(ozali koloba lingala)
ང་ཧིན་དབྱངས་དངོས་གཏོང་གི་མེད་པས།
Nasalaka hindi malamu te(nasalaka hindi malamu te)