Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
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
Pakistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
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.
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
Similar To
Not Available
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Afganistan, Pakistan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, Pakistan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
China
Afganistan, Pakistan
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
tibétain
pachto
German Name
Tibetisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Pashtun
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Iranian
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-ABD-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Tibetan and Pashto Speaking population
Tibetan and Pashto speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Pashto languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Pashto Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Pashto language is 0.58 %. 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 Pashto on Tibetan vs Pashto where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Pashto Language Codes
Tibetan and Pashto language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Pashto Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.