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Tibetan and Punjabi


Punjabi 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   
Pakistan   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Not Available   

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.
  
  • Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
  • Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Hindi Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
53   
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
9   
6

How Many Consonants
30   
20
41   
30

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
6 weeks   
3

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)   

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Pothohari   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Pakistan   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
2,500,000.00   
22

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Saraiki   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Afganistan, India, Pakistan   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
20,000,000.00   
5

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Doabi   

Where They Speak
China   
Pakistan, Punjab, India   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
30   
24

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
154.30 million   
12

Speaking Population
Not Available   
1.44 %   
11

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
100.00 million   
11

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
54.30 million   
12

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi   

French Name
tibétain   
pendjabi   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Pandschabi-Sprache   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Availble   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Punjabis   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1000 AD   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Not Available   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Punjabi   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Indian Signing System (ISS)   

Scope
Not Available   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
pa   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
pan   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
pan   

ISO 639 3
bod   
pan   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
panj1256   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional   

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

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Tibetan and Punjabi Speaking population

Tibetan and Punjabi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Punjabi languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Punjabi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Punjabi language is 1.44 %. 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 Punjabi on Tibetan vs Punjabi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Punjabi Language Codes

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

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