Countries
China, Nepal
Iraq, Kurdistan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Middle East
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.
- The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Not Available
Farsi Language
Derived From
Not Available
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Silaw
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Sipas
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Şev xweş
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Bayanit bash
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Bê zehmet
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bibûre
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Be xêr çî
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
China
Eastern Iraq
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Not Available
French Name
tibétain
kurde
German Name
Tibetisch
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kurds
Origin
c. 650
16th century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
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Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Not Available
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kurdish
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAA-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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All Tibetan and Kurdish 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 Kurdish dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Kurdish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Kurdish Dialects are spoken in different Kurdish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Kurdish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Kurdish dialects include: Northern Kurdish , Central Kurdish. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Tibetan and Kurdish Speaking population
Tibetan and Kurdish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Kurdish languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Kurdish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Kurdish language is 0.31 %. 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 Kurdish on Tibetan vs Kurdish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Kurdish Language Codes
Tibetan and Kurdish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Kurdish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.