Countries
Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
India, Pakistan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
- 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
Hindi Language
Not Available
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5335
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4130
9
60
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Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialects
Dialect 1
Pothohari
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Pakistan
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Saraiki
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
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Dialect 3
Doabi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
China
How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
306
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
154.30 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
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Speaking Population
1.44 %NA
0.11
89
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Native Speakers
100.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
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Second Language Speakers
54.30 millionNA
0.01
400
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Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
pendjabi
tibétain
German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Availble
Not Available
Ethnicity
Punjabis
tibetan people
History
Origin
1000 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
NANA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Not Available
Code
ISO 639 1
pa
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
pan
bod
ISO 639 2/B
pan
tib
ISO 639 3
pan
bod
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
panj1256
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available