Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
India
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
-
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3552
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
510
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3040
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
24
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
معاف کرنا
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
الوداع
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Dakhini
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0069,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Rekhta
Where They Speak
China
South Asia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0069,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million104.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.05 %0.99 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
1.20 million61.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million43.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bihari
French Name
tibétain
ourdou
German Name
Tibetisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Urdu-speaking people
Origin
c. 650
12th Century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
2920
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Urdu
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
urd
ISO 639 2/B
tib
urd
ISO 639 3
bod
urd
ISO 639 6
bod
urd
Glottocode
tibe1272
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional