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Tibetan and Persian


Countries

Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
3  
12
2  
13

National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  
  • 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
Pashto and Balochi Languages  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Arabic Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
32  
14
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
23  
13
30  
20

Scripts
Arabic  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
عصر بخیر  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
صبح به خیر  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
لطفا  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
متاسف  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

Excuse Me
ببخشيد!  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Western Persian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
47,000,000.00  
15
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Dari Persian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Afganistan  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
12,500,000.00  
33
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Tajik Persian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan  
China  

How Many People Speak
7,900,000.00  
32
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
12  
12
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
65.00 million  
26
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.99 %  
21
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
65.00 million  
17
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
110.00 million  
7
6.00 million  
99+

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

Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
persan  
tibétain  

German Name
Persisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Persian people  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
1500 BC  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Iranian  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Persian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
23  
21
29  
27

Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
fa  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fas  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
per  
tib  

ISO 639 3
pes  
bod  

ISO 639 6
pers  
bod  

Glottocode
fars1254  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
58-AAC-c  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
-  

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

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Persian and Tibetan Speaking population

Persian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % 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 Persian and Tibetan on Persian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Persian and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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