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Tibetan and Kashmiri


Kashmiri and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India, Pakistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
India, Pakistan  

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  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
-  

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.
  
  • Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
  • Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Hindi and Urdu Languages  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
44  
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
17  
14

How Many Consonants
30  
20
27  
17

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Assalām ‘alaikum  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
سہا مسا  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Hach t'ochoktiya  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Hach ch'i  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
مهربانی کر  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Khuda hāfiz  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
be chus che seth mohabat karaan  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Kashtawari  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
6,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Poguli  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Pogul and Paristan valleys  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
6,100,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Rambani  

Where They Speak
China  
India  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
5,600,000.00  
36

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
4  
4

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
5.60 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
5.42 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
कॉशुर / كٲشُر  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur  

French Name
tibétain  
kashmiri  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Kaschmiri  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[kəːʃur]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Kashmiris or koshur  

History

Origin
c. 650  
12th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Kashmiri  

Language Position
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Indian Signing System (ISS)  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ks  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
kas  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
kas  

ISO 639 3
bod  
kas  

ISO 639 6
bod  
kas  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
kash1277  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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

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Tibetan and Kashmiri Speaking population

Tibetan and Kashmiri speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Kashmiri languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Kashmiri Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Kashmiri 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 Tibetan and Kashmiri on Tibetan vs Kashmiri where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Kashmiri Language Codes

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

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