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Tibetan and Persian


Persian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
3  
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan  

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.
  
  • In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
  • Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Pashto and Balochi Languages  

Derived From
-  
Arabic Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
32  
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
6  
3

How Many Consonants
30  
20
23  
13

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic  

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)  
سلام  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
متشکرم  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
چطور هستید?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
شب بخیر  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
عصر بخیر  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
بعد از ظهر بخیر  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
صبح به خیر  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
لطفا  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
متاسف  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
خدا حافظ  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
من شما را دوست دارم  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
ببخشيد!  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Western Persian  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Iran, Iraq  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
47,000,000.00  
15

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Dari Persian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Afganistan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
12,500,000.00  
33

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Tajik Persian  

Where They Speak
China  
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
7,900,000.00  
32

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
12  
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
65.00 million  
26

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.99 %  
21

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
65.00 million  
17

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
110.00 million  
7

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
فارسی  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian  

French Name
tibétain  
persan  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Persisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[fɒːɾˈsiː]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Persian people  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1500 BC  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Iranian  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Persian and Middle Persian  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Persian  

Language Position
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Persian Sign Language  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
fa  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
fas  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
per  

ISO 639 3
bod  
pes  

ISO 639 6
bod  
pers  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
fars1254  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
58-AAC-c  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Synthetic  

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

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Tibetan and Persian Speaking population

Tibetan and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Tibetan vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Persian Language Codes

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

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