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Luri vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs 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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Luri and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Luri vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Luri and Tibetan language. History of Luri language states that this language originated in 19 BC whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Luri and Tibetan Language History.

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Luri and Tibetan Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Luri and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Luri and Tibetan language. Luri word for "Hello" is hello or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Luri Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Luri vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Luri vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Luri Alphabets and Tibetan Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Luri and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Luri and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Luri is 25 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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