Countries
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
China, Nepal
National Language
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
China, India, Nepal
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
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.
Similar To
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Not Available
Derived From
Arabic Language
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
سلام
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
متشکرم
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
چطور هستید?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
شب بخیر
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
عصر بخیر
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
بعد از ظهر بخیر
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
صبح به خیر
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
لطفا
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
متاسف
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
خدا حافظ
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
من شما را دوست دارم
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ببخشيد!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Western Persian
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Iran, Iraq
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Dari Persian
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Afganistan
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Tajik Persian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
China
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
فارسی
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
persan
tibétain
German Name
Persisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Persian people
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Iranian
Not Available
Early Forms
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Persian
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Persian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
fars1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
58-AAC-c
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Persian and Tibetan Speaking population
Persian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Persian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Persian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 % 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 Persian and Tibetan on Persian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Persian and Tibetan Language Codes
Persian and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Persian and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.