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Kurdish vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs 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  
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Derived From
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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  
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
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Kurdish and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Kurdish vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Kurdish and Tibetan language. History of Kurdish language states that this language originated in 16th century CE whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Kurdish and Tibetan Language History.

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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.

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