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Tibetan and Urdu


Urdu and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
India, Pakistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Pakistan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Pakistan   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Oceania   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
India   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, 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.
  
  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Arabic and Hindi Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Ghaznavid Persian Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
52   
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
10   
7

How Many Consonants
30   
20
40   
29

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Arabic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
خوش آمديد   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
آپ کا شکریہ   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
آپ کیسے ہیں؟   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
گڈ نائٹ   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
سلام علیکم   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
گڈ آفٹر نون   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
گڈ مارننگ   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
براہ مہربانی   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
معاف کرنا   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
مجھے تم سے محبت   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
معاف کیجئے گا   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Dakhini   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
India   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
11,000,000.00   
12

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Hyderabadi Urdu   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
India   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Rekhta   

Where They Speak
China   
South Asia   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
104.00 million   
15

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.99 %   
20

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
61.00 million   
19

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
43.00 million   
14

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Bihari   

French Name
tibétain   
ourdou   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Urdu   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈʊrd̪u]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Not Available   

History

Origin
c. 650   
12th Century CE   

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   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Modern Standard Urdu   

Language Position
Not Available   
20   
18

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Urdu   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
ur   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
urd   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
urd   

ISO 639 3
bod   
urd   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
urdu1245   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
59-AAF-q   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Fusional   

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

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Tibetan and Urdu Speaking population

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

Tibetan and Urdu Language Codes

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

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