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
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Derived From
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Perso-Arabic script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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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
Dialect 2
Western Balochi
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Southern Balochi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
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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
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Balochi
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
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ISO 639 1
No data available
bo
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
balo1260
tibe1272
Linguasphere
58-AAB-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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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.