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Tibetan vs Punjabi


Punjabi vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India, Pakistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
India, Pakistan  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Pakistan  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America  

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.
  
  • Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
  • Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Hindi Language  

Derived From
-  
Sanskrit Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
53  
32

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
9  
6

How Many Consonants
30  
20
41  
30

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
6 weeks  
3

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)  

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

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Pothohari  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Pakistan  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
2,500,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Saraiki  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Afganistan, India, Pakistan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
20,000,000.00  
26

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Doabi  

Where They Speak
China  
Pakistan, Punjab, India  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
130,000,000.00  
3

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
30  
24

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
154.30 million  
12

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
1.44 %  
12

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
100.00 million  
11

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
54.30 million  
17

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi  

French Name
tibétain  
pendjabi  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Pandschabi-Sprache  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
Not Availble  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Punjabis  

History

Origin
c. 650  
1000 AD  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
-  
Indic  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Modern Punjabi  

Language Position
29  
27
23  
21

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Indian Signing System (ISS)  

Scope
-  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
pa  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
pan  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
pan  

ISO 639 3
bod  
pan  

ISO 639 6
bod  
panj  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
panj1256  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
No data available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional  

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Tibetan and Punjabi Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Punjabi language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Punjabi language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Punjabi language states that this language originated in 1000 AD. 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 Punjabi Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Punjabi Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Punjabi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Punjabi 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 Punjabi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Punjabi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Punjabi time required is 6 weeks.

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