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Tibetan and Pashto


Pashto and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Afganistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
44  
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
7  
4

How Many Consonants
30  
20
29  
19

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Central Pashto  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Afganistan, Pakistan  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
6,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Northern Pashto  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Afganistan, Pakistan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
21,000,000.00  
25

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Wanetsi  

Where They Speak
China  
Afganistan, Pakistan  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
95,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
21  
19

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
60.00 million  
27

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.58 %  
28

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
60.00 million  
20

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
50.00 million  
18

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  

History

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
29  
27
82  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Pashto Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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  

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

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Tibetan and Pashto Speaking population

Tibetan and Pashto speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Pashto languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Pashto Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Pashto language is 0.58 %. 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 Pashto on Tibetan vs Pashto where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Pashto Language Codes

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

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