Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Iran
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
  
- 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
Kurdish and Persian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Balochi-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Perso-Arabic script
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Salam
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
mana bebahgsh
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
chone tao?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
jawáin shap
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
jawáin begáh
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Mihrabani kan
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
bye
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Eastern Balochi
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Pakistan
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
17
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Western Balochi
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
20
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
3,400,000.00
  
10
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.60 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
بلوچی
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Baluchi
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
baloutchi
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Belutschisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
19th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Not Available
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Balochi
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bal
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
bal
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
bal
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
balo1260
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
58-AAB-a
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available