Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
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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
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
65
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2330
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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།
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
47,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
12,500,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China
How Many People Speak
7,900,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
126
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
65.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
65.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
110.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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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
Origin
1500 BC
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Iranian
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2329
1
120
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Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
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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