1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Kurdish and Persian
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Perso-Arabic script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Salam
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
mana bebahgsh
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
chone tao?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
jawáin shap
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
jawáin begáh
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Not Available
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
jawáin sawáh
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Mihrabani kan
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
bebaksh / bebagsh
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Tu mana doost biyeh
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
mana bebahgsh
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Eastern Balochi
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Pakistan
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Western Balochi
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,400,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
7.60 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
7.60 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Baluchi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
58-AAB-a
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available