Countries
India, Pakistan
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Jammu and Kashmir, India
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Not Available
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Dogri is derived from Sanskrit, but it has absorbed a large number of Arabic, Persian and English words.
- Dogri language has its own grammar and dictionary. The grammar of dogri has very strong sanskrit base.
  
- 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
Hindi and Punjabi Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Dogri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Perso-Arabic script
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
Ke aal aee
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
dhanwaad
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
kiyaan oo ji
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
shub ratri
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
shub ratri
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Not Available
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
su prabat
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
kripya
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
mere kaulan galti ooyyii
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
changa ji pher
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Minjo tere naal pyar hega
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
gustakhi maaf
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Jaunsari
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Himachal Pradesh, India
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
100,000.00
  
99+
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Kullu
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Hinduri
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
France, Himachal Pradesh, India
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
4.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
4.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
डोगरी
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Dhogaryali, Dogari, Dogri Jammu, Dogri Pahari, Dogri-Kangri, Dongari, Hindi Dogri, Tokkaru
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
dogri
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Dogri
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Dogras
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1971
  
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
Dogri
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
Not Available
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
doi
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
indo1311
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
Not Available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available