1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Balochi language had no written form before the early 19th century. The official language used until that time was Persian.
- Balochi has borrowed words from Persian, Arabic, Sindhi, and other languages.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Kurdish and Persian
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Salam
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
mana bebahgsh
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
chone tao?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
jawáin shap
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
jawáin begáh
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Not Available
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
jawáin sawáh
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Mihrabani kan
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
bebaksh / bebagsh
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
bye
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Tu mana doost biyeh
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
mana bebahgsh
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Eastern Balochi
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western Balochi
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,800,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Balochi
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.003,400,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million7.60 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Baluchi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not available
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
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
58-AAB-a
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available