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Kurdish and Tibetan


Tibetan and Kurdish


Countries

Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Middle East   
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
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Farsi Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
33   
15
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
5   
2

How Many Consonants
29   
19
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks   
2
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Silaw   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Sipas   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Tu çawa yî?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Şev xweş   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Evare baş   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Nee-wa-rowt bash   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Bayanit bash   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Bê zehmet   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Bibûre   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Be xêr çî   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Ez te hez dikem   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Bê zehmet   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Northern Kurdish   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
20,000,000.00   
10
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Central Kurdish   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00   
14
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq   
China   

How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00   
12
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million   
38
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.31 %   
39
Not Available   

Native Speakers
21.00 million   
36
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
kurde   
tibétain   

German Name
Kurdisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Kurds   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
16th century CE   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Not Available   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Kurdish   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ku   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
kur   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
kur   
tib   

ISO 639 3
kur   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
kurd1259   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
58-AAA-a   
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 Kurdish 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 Kurdish and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Kurdish and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Kurdish are spoken in different Kurdish Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Kurdish vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Kurdish dialects include: Northern Kurdish, Central Kurdish. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Kurdish and Tibetan Speaking population

Kurdish and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Kurdish and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Kurdish and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 % 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 Kurdish and Tibetan on Kurdish vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Kurdish and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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