Countries
Iraq, Kurdistan
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Kurdish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
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
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million
  
38
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
  
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