Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
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
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Arabic Language
Alphabets in
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Persian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
China
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Persian
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAC-c
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic
Tibetan and Persian 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 Persian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Persian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Persian word for "Thank You" is متشکرم. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Persian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Persian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.