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Balochi vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Balochi


Countries

Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

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

Alphabets in
Balochi-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
34  
16
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8  
5
5  
2

How Many Consonants
26  
16
30  
20

Scripts
Perso-Arabic script  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
Not Available  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
3  
3
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
7.60 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.11 %  
99+
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  

History

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  

Code

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  

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Balochi and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Balochi vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Balochi and Tibetan language. History of Balochi language states that this language originated in 19th Century whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Balochi and Tibetan Language History.

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Balochi 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 Balochi and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Balochi and Tibetan language. Balochi word for "Hello" is Salam or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Balochi Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Balochi vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Balochi vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Balochi 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 Balochi and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Balochi and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Balochi is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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