Countries
China, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan
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
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
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Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
China
Eastern Iraq
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
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French Name
tibétain
kurde
German Name
Tibetisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kurds
Origin
c. 650
16th century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
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Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kurdish
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
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Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
tibe1272
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAA-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Kurdish 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 Kurdish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Kurdish language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Kurdish word for "Thank You" is Sipas. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Kurdish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Kurdish Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Kurdish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kurdish 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 Kurdish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kurdish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kurdish time required is 4 weeks.