1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
India, Pakistan
Nepal, Tibet
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic 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
Hindi and Urdu Languages
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1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit 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
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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
Assalām ‘alaikum
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Not Available
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Hach ch'i
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Not Available
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Khuda hāfiz
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Kashtawari
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.60 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.42 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Kashmiri
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
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
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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