Countries
India, Pakistan
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
India, Pakistan
  
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 spoken in any of the countries
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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.
  
Similar To
Hindi and Urdu Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Assalām ‘alaikum
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Not Available
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Hach t'ochoktiya
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Hach ch'i
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Not Available
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Khuda hāfiz
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Kashtawari
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Poguli
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Rambani
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
India
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
5.60 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.42 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
kashmiri
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Kaschmiri
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[kəːʃur]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Kashmiris or koshur
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
12th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Kashmiri
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
ks
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
kas
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
kas
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
kas
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
kash1277
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available