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Punjabi and Tibetan


Tibetan and Punjabi


Countries

Countries
India, Pakistan   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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
Punjabi-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
53   
32
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
5   
2

How Many Consonants
41   
30
30   
20

Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
6 weeks   
3
24 weeks   
6

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
2,500,000.00   
22
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Saraiki   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00   
5
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Doabi   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
30   
24
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
154.30 million   
12
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
1.44 %   
11
Not Available   

Native Speakers
100.00 million   
11
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
54.30 million   
12
Not Available   

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   

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   

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

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Punjabi and Tibetan Speaking population

Punjabi and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Punjabi and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Punjabi and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Punjabi language is 1.44 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. 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 Punjabi and Tibetan on Punjabi vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Punjabi and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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