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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
-  
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  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Sanskrit Language  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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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  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Saraiki  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00  
26
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Doabi  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India  
China  

How Many People Speak
130,000,000.00  
3
1,800,000.00  
99+

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 %  
12
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
100.00 million  
11
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
54.30 million  
17
6.00 million  
99+

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  
[tibetan]  

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  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
23  
21
29  
27

Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
-  
-  

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
panj  
bod  

Glottocode
panj1256  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
-  

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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 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 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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