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
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Derived From
Sanskrit Language
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Alphabets in
Kashmiri-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
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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
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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
Dialect 2
Poguli
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Pogul and Paristan valleys
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Rambani
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
India
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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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]
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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
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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
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
kash1277
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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Kashmiri 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 Kashmiri and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kashmiri and Tibetan language. Kashmiri word for "Hello" is Assalām ‘alaikum or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Kashmiri Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kashmiri vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Kashmiri vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kashmiri 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 Kashmiri and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kashmiri and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kashmiri is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.
