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Pashto and Tibetan


Tibetan and Pashto


Countries

Countries
Afganistan   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
Pakistan   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
  • The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
  
  • 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
Persian and Balochi Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
44   
24
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
7   
4
5   
2

How Many Consonants
29   
19
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
(salaam) سلام   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير‏   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
(lotfan) لطفا   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Pashto   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
6,500,000.00   
14
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Northern Pashto   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00   
4
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Wanetsi   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan   
China   

How Many People Speak
95,000.00   
29
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
60.00 million   
27
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.58 %   
26
Not Available   

Native Speakers
60.00 million   
20
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
(paṧto) پښتو   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
pachto   
tibétain   

German Name
Paschtu   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Pashtun   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1651   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Iranian   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
82   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ps   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
pus   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
pus   
tib   

ISO 639 3
pus   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
pash1269   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
58-ABD-a   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional   
Not Available   

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

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Pashto and Tibetan Speaking population

Pashto and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Pashto and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Pashto and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Pashto language is 0.58 % 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 Pashto and Tibetan on Pashto vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Pashto and Tibetan Language Codes

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