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Tibetan vs Balochi


Balochi vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Iran   

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   
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee   

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.
  
  • Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
  • Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Kurdish and Persian   

Derived From
Not Available   
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
34   
16

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
30   
20
26   
16

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Perso-Arabic script   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Not Available   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Salam   

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
jawáin shap   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
jawáin begáh   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Not Available   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
jawáin sawáh   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Mihrabani kan   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
bebaksh / bebagsh   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Tu mana doost biyeh   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
mana bebahgsh   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Eastern Balochi   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Pakistan   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
5,000,000.00   
17

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Western Balochi   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
1,800,000.00   
20

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Southern Balochi   

Where They Speak
China   
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
3,400,000.00   
10

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
7.60 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.11 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
7.60 million   
99+

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

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

French Name
tibétain   
baloutchi   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Belutschisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui   

History

Origin
c. 650   
19th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Not Available   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Balochi   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
No data available   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
bal   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
bal   

ISO 639 3
bod   
bal   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
balo1260   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
58-AAB-a   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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Tibetan and Balochi Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Balochi language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Balochi language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Balochi language states that this language originated in 19th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Balochi Language History.

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Tibetan and Balochi Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Balochi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Balochi language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Balochi word for "Thank You" is mana bebahgsh. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Balochi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Balochi Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Balochi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Balochi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Balochi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Balochi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Balochi time required is 44 weeks.

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