Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
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Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4435
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
175
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2730
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
سہا مسا
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
مهربانی کر
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Poguli
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
6,100,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rambani
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
China
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.60 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.42 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
kashmiri
tibétain
German Name
Kaschmiri
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
tibetan people
Origin
12th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ks
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kas
bod
ISO 639 2/B
kas
tib
ISO 639 3
kas
bod
ISO 639 6
kas
bod
Glottocode
kash1277
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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