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Tibetan vs Luri


Luri vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Iran  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Iran  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
-  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Antartica  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
-  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
-  

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.
  
Luri language is spoken mainly in western and southwestern Iran.  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Persian  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
45  
25

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
40  
29

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
25 weeks  
7

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Good evening  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Good afternoon  

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Please  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
sorry  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
i love you  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
excuse me  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Feyli lurish  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Eastern Iraq, Western Iran  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
3,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Bakhtiari  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Iran  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
3,000,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Laki  

Where They Speak
China  
Iran  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,000,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
5  
5

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.00 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
0.00 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
89.00 million  
10

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

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Lori, Luri, Luristani  

French Name
tibétain  
louri  

German Name
Tibetisch  
-  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ˈoɽia]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Lurs  

History

Origin
c. 650  
19 BC  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
gd  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
gd  

Language Position
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Indian Signing System  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
12  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
lrc  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
lrc  

ISO 639 3
bod  
12  

ISO 639 6
bod  
lrc  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
12  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
12  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Tibetan and Luri Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Luri language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Luri language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Luri language states that this language originated in 19 BC. 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 Luri Language History.

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Tibetan and Luri 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 Luri greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Luri language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Luri word for "Thank You" is Thank you. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Luri Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Luri Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Luri difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Luri 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 Luri are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Luri, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Luri time required is 25 weeks.

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