Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
23
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3532
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3023
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
سلام
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
متشکرم
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
صبح به خیر
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
لطفا
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
متاسف
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Western Persian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Iran, Iraq
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0012,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
China
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.007,900,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
612
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million65.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.99 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million65.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million110.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
tibétain
persan
German Name
Tibetisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Persian people
Origin
c. 650
1500 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Iranian
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Persian
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
fa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
fas
ISO 639 2/B
tib
per
ISO 639 3
bod
pes
ISO 639 6
bod
pers
Glottocode
tibe1272
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic