1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
- 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.
1.11 Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Not Available
1.13 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.3 Alphabets
4.3 Phonology
4.3.1 How Many Vowels
4.5.2 How Many Consonants
4.6 Scripts
Arabic
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
4.7 Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
4.8 Hard to Learn
4.8.1 Language Levels
4.14.2 Time Taken to Learn
7 Greetings
7.1 Hello
سلام
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
7.2 Thank You
متشکرم
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
7.3 How Are You?
چطور هستید?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
7.4 Good Night
شب بخیر
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
7.5 Good Evening
عصر بخیر
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
7.6 Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
7.7 Good Morning
صبح به خیر
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
7.8 Please
لطفا
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
7.9 Sorry
متاسف
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
7.10 Bye
خدا حافظ
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
7.11 I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
7.12 Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
8 Dialects
8.1 Dialect 1
Western Persian
Central Tibetan
8.1.1 Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
China, India, Nepal
8.1.2 How Many People Speak
47,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
8.3 Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Khams Tibetan
8.3.1 Where They Speak
8.3.2 How Many People Speak
12,500,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
8.5 Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Amdo Tibetan
8.5.1 Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China
8.5.2 How Many People Speak
7,900,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
10.3 Total No. Of Dialects
12 How Many People Speak
12.1 How Many People Speak?
65.00 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
12.4 Speaking Population
12.6 Native Speakers
65.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
12.7.2 Second Language Speakers
14.3.4 Native Name
14.3.5 Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
14.3.6 French Name
14.3.7 German Name
14.4 Pronunciation
14.5 Ethnicity
Persian people
tibetan people
15 History
15.1 Origin
15.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
15.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
15.2.2 Branch
15.3 Language Forms
15.3.1 Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
15.3.2 Standard Forms
15.3.3 Language Position
16.7.4 Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
16.8 Scope
17 Code
17.1 ISO 639 1
17.2 ISO 639 2
17.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
17.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
17.3 ISO 639 3
17.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
17.5 Glottocode
17.6 Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data Available
17.7 Types of Language
17.7.1 Language Type
17.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
17.7.3 Language Morphological Typology