1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
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
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
- 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
Farsi Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
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, Cyrillic, Latin
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
Silaw
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Sipas
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
Şev xweş
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Evare baş
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Bayanit bash
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
Bê zehmet
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Bibûre
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Be xêr çî
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Ez te hez dikem
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Bê zehmet
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Khams Tibetan
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Amdo Tibetan
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,000,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
28.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
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
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Not Available
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Macrolanguage
Not Available
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
58-AAA-a
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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