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Kashmiri and Tibetan


Tibetan and Kashmiri


Countries

Countries
India, Pakistan   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
44   
24
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
17   
14
5   
2

How Many Consonants
27   
17
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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།   

Dialects

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

Total No. Of Dialects
4   
4
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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   

Code

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   

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All Kashmiri and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Kashmiri and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Kashmiri and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kashmiri are spoken in different Kashmiri Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kashmiri vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kashmiri dialects include: Kashtawari, Poguli. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Kashmiri and Tibetan Speaking population

Kashmiri and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kashmiri and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Kashmiri and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kashmiri language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Kashmiri and Tibetan on Kashmiri vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kashmiri and Tibetan Language Codes

Kashmiri and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Kashmiri and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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