Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
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
Pakistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
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.
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3544
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
57
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3029
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, 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)
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
China
Afganistan, Pakistan
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0095,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.58 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million60.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million50.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
tibétain
pachto
German Name
Tibetisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Pashtun
Origin
c. 650
1651
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
2982
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Pashto Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ps
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
pus
ISO 639 2/B
tib
pus
ISO 639 3
bod
pus
ISO 639 6
bod
pus
Glottocode
tibe1272
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-ABD-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional