Countries
Afganistan
China, Nepal
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 in
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Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Central Pashto
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Northern Pashto
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Wanetsi
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Afganistan, Pakistan
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Iranian
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Early Forms
No early forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
pash1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Not Available
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
Pashto and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Pashto and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.