Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Iran
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
-
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3534
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3026
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Salam
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
mana bebahgsh
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
chone tao?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
jawáin shap
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
jawáin begáh
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
سلام علیکم
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
jawáin sawáh
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mihrabani kan
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
bebaksh / bebagsh
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Tu mana doost biyeh
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
mana bebahgsh
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,800,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
China
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,400,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.60 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million8.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
بلوچی
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Baluchi
French Name
tibétain
baloutchi
German Name
Tibetisch
Belutschisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[bəˈloʧi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
Origin
c. 650
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Balochi
Language Position
2939
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Balochi Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
bal
ISO 639 2/B
tib
bal
ISO 639 3
bod
bal
ISO 639 6
bod
bal
Glottocode
tibe1272
balo1260
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-