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Persian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs 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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Persian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Persian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Persian and Tibetan language. History of Persian language states that this language originated in 1500 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 Persian and Tibetan Language History.

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Persian 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 Persian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Tibetan language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Persian vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Persian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian 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 Persian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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