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
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Derived From
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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]
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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
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ISO 639 6
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Glottocode
pash1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
58-ABD-a
No data Available
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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Pashto 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 Pashto and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Pashto and Tibetan language. Pashto word for "Hello" is (salaam) سلام or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Pashto Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Pashto vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Pashto vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Pashto 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 Pashto and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Pashto and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Pashto is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.