Countries
Iran
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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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 in
Alphabets
4535
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4030
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
25 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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།
Dialect 1
Feyli lurish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq, Western Iran
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bakhtiari
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iran
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Laki
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iran
China
How Many People Speak
1,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
56
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
0.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.00 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.00 million1.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
89.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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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
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
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
-
-
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
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
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