Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Nepal
National Language
Pakistan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
India
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- 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.
Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets in
Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
خوش آمديد
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
گڈ نائٹ
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
سلام علیکم
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
براہ مہربانی
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
معاف کرنا
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
الوداع
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Dakhini
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Asia
China
Native Name
اُردُو
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Bihari
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
ourdou
tibétain
German Name
Urdu
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Urdu-speaking people
tibetan people
Origin
12th Century CE
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
urdu1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data Available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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All Urdu and Tibetan Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Urdu and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Urdu and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Urdu are spoken in different Urdu Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Urdu vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Urdu dialects include: Dakhini, Hyderabadi Urdu. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Urdu and Tibetan Speaking population
Urdu and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Urdu and Tibetan on Urdu vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Urdu and Tibetan Language Codes
Urdu and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Urdu and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.