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Balochi and Tibetan


Tibetan and Balochi


Countries

Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

National Language
Iran  
Nepal, Tibet  

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

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
  • Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other 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
Kurdish and Persian  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
34  
16
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
26  
16
30  
20

Scripts
Perso-Arabic script  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
Salam  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  

Thank You
mana bebahgsh  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  

How Are You?
chone tao?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

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

Good Evening
jawáin begáh  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
سلام علیکم  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

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

Please
Mihrabani kan  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Eastern Balochi  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Pakistan  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Western Balochi  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Southern Balochi  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates  
China  

How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.11 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
7.60 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
8.50 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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

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

French Name
baloutchi  
tibétain  

German Name
Belutschisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[bəˈloʧi]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
19th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Balochi  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
39  
36
29  
27

Signed Forms
Balochi Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
No data available  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bal  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
bal  
tib  

ISO 639 3
bal  
bod  

ISO 639 6
bal  
bod  

Glottocode
balo1260  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
58-AAB-a  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Balochi and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Balochi and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Balochi and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Balochi are spoken in different Balochi Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Balochi vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Balochi dialects include: Eastern Balochi, Western Balochi. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Balochi and Tibetan Speaking population

Balochi and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Balochi and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Balochi and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Balochi language is 0.11 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Balochi and Tibetan on Balochi vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Balochi and Tibetan Language Codes

Balochi and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Balochi and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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