Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
China, Nepal
National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Middle East
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
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- 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
Farsi Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Silaw
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Sipas
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Şev xweş
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Evare baş
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Bayanit bash
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Bê zehmet
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Bibûre
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Be xêr çî
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
China
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Kurdî, کوردی
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
kurde
tibétain
German Name
Kurdisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Kurds
tibetan people
Origin
16th century CE
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Kurdish Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
kurd1259
tibe1272
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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All Kurdish 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 Kurdish and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Kurdish and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kurdish are spoken in different Kurdish Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kurdish vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kurdish dialects include: Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Kurdish and Tibetan Speaking population
Kurdish and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % 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 Kurdish and Tibetan on Kurdish vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Kurdish and Tibetan Language Codes
Kurdish and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kurdish and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.