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
Not Available
Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Not Available
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
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Rekhta
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
South Asia
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Not Available
tibetan people
Origin
12th Century CE
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Indic
Not Available
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Signed Urdu
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
urdu1245
tibe1272
Linguasphere
59-AAF-q
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available
Urdu and Tibetan 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 Urdu and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Urdu and Tibetan language. Urdu word for "Hello" is خوش آمديد or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Urdu Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Urdu vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Urdu vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Urdu Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Urdu and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Urdu and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Urdu is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.