Countries
China, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3533
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3029
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
24
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Silaw
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Sipas
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bayanit bash
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Bê zehmet
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bibûre
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
China
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.31 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
tibétain
kurde
German Name
Tibetisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kurds
Origin
c. 650
16th century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kurdish
Language Position
2914
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
kur
ISO 639 2/B
tib
kur
ISO 639 3
bod
kur
ISO 639 6
bod
kur
Glottocode
tibe1272
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
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Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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