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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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
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
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
Persian 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 Persian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Persian and Tibetan language. Persian word for "Hello" is سلام or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Persian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Persian vs Tibetan Difficulty
The Persian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Persian 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 Persian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Persian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Persian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.