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Tibetan and Balochi


Balochi and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Iran  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Asia  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
India, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Balochi Academy, National Languages Committee  

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.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Kurdish and Persian  

Derived From
Not Available  
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Balochi-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
34  
16

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
26  
16

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Perso-Arabic script  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Salam  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
mana bebahgsh  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
chone tao?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
jawáin shap  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
jawáin begáh  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Not Available  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
jawáin sawáh  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Mihrabani kan  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
bebaksh / bebagsh  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
bye  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Tu mana doost biyeh  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
mana bebahgsh  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Eastern Balochi  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Pakistan  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
5,000,000.00  
17

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Western Balochi  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
1,800,000.00  
20

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Southern Balochi  

Where They Speak
China  
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
3,400,000.00  
10

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
7.60 million  
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.11 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
7.60 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
بلوچی  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Baluchi  

French Name
tibétain  
baloutchi  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Belutschisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Predominantly Baloch, some Brahui  

History

Origin
c. 650  
19th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Balochi  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
No data available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
bal  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
bal  

ISO 639 3
bod  
bal  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
balo1260  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
58-AAB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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All Tibetan and Balochi Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Balochi dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Balochi language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Balochi Dialects are spoken in different Balochi speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Balochi Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Balochi dialects include: Eastern Balochi , Western Balochi. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Balochi Speaking population

Tibetan and Balochi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Balochi languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Balochi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Balochi language is 0.11 %. 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 Tibetan and Balochi on Tibetan vs Balochi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Balochi Language Codes

Tibetan and Balochi language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Balochi Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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