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Luri and Tibetan


Tibetan and Luri


Countries

Countries
Iran  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
1  
14
2  
13

National Language
Iran  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
-  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Antartica  
Asia  

Minority Language
-  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
-  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
Luri language is spoken mainly in western and southwestern Iran.  
  • 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
Persian  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
45  
25
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
40  
29
30  
20

Scripts
Arabic  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
25 weeks  
7
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
Good evening  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Good afternoon  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

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

Please
Please  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
sorry  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
i love you  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
excuse me  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Feyli lurish  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq, Western Iran  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Bakhtiari  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Iran  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Laki  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Iran  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
5  
5
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.00 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
89.00 million  
10
6.00 million  
99+

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

Alternative Names
Lori, Luri, Luristani  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
louri  
tibétain  

German Name
-  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[ˈoɽia]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Lurs  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
19 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Indic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
gd  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
gd  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
23  
21
29  
27

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
12  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
lrc  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
lrc  
tib  

ISO 639 3
12  
bod  

ISO 639 6
lrc  
bod  

Glottocode
12  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
12  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Luri 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 Luri and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Luri and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Luri are spoken in different Luri Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Luri vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Luri dialects include: Feyli lurish, Bakhtiari. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Luri and Tibetan Speaking population

Luri and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Luri and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Luri and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Luri language is 0.00 % 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 Luri and Tibetan on Luri vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Luri and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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