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Tibetan vs Urdu


Urdu vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
India, Pakistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
52  
31

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
10  
7

How Many Consonants
30  
20
40  
29

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Dakhini  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
India  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
11,000,000.00  
36

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Hyderabadi Urdu  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
India  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
69,000,000.00  
12

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Rekhta  

Where They Speak
China  
South Asia  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
69,000,000.00  
11

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
104.00 million  
15

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.99 %  
21

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
61.00 million  
19

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
43.00 million  
20

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  

History

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
29  
27
20  
18

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Signed Urdu  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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  
59-AAF-q  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
Fusional  

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Tibetan and Urdu Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Urdu language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Urdu language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Urdu language states that this language originated in 12th Century CE. 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 Urdu Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Urdu Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Urdu difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Urdu 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 Urdu are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Urdu, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Urdu time required is 44 weeks.

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