Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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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
Alphabets
5235
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
105
0
32
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How Many Consonants
4030
9
60
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Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Rekhta
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Asia
China
How Many People Speak
69,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
36
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
104.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.99 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
61.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
43.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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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
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2029
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ur
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
urd
bod
ISO 639 2/B
urd
tib
ISO 639 3
urd
bod
ISO 639 6
urd
bod
Glottocode
urdu1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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