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Tibetan and Kashmiri


Kashmiri and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
India, Pakistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
India, Pakistan   

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   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Not Available   

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.
  
  • Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
  • Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Hindi and Urdu Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Sanskrit Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
44   
24

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
17   
14

How Many Consonants
30   
20
27   
17

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Right-To-Left, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Assalām ‘alaikum   

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)   

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)   

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Not Available   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Hach t'ochoktiya   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Hach ch'i   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Not Available   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)   

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
be chus che seth mohabat karaan   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Kashtawari   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Poguli   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Pogul and Paristan valleys   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Rambani   

Where They Speak
China   
India   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
4   
4

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
5.42 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
कॉशुर / كٲشُر   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur   

French Name
tibétain   
kashmiri   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Kaschmiri   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[kəːʃur]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Kashmiris or koshur   

History

Origin
c. 650   
12th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Not Available   
Indic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Kashmiri   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Indian Signing System (ISS)   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
ks   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
kas   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
kas   

ISO 639 3
bod   
kas   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
kash1277   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Tibetan and Kashmiri 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 Kashmiri dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Kashmiri language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Kashmiri Dialects are spoken in different Kashmiri speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Kashmiri Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Kashmiri dialects include: Kashtawari , Poguli. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Kashmiri Speaking population

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Tibetan and Kashmiri Language Codes

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

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