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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Central Kurdish
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Southern Kurdish
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Eastern Iraq
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
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Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
kurde
tibétain
German Name
Kurdisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
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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
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Early Forms
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Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Kurdish
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
kurd1259
tibe1272
Linguasphere
58-AAA-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
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Kurdish 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 Kurdish and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Kurdish and Tibetan language. Kurdish word for "Hello" is Silaw or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Kurdish Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Kurdish vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Kurdish vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Kurdish 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 Kurdish and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Kurdish and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Kurdish is 4 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.