1 Countries
1.1 Countries
India, Pakistan
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
India, Pakistan
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Not Available
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Hindi Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Pothohari
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Pakistan
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
20,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Pakistan, Punjab, India
China
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
154.30 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
100.00 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Pandschabi-Sprache
Tibetisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Availble
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Punjabi
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
Not Available
Not Available
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology