Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
Similar To
Not Available
Pashto and Balochi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Arabic Language
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)
سلام
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
متشکرم
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
چطور هستید?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
شب بخیر
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
عصر بخیر
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
بعد از ظهر بخیر
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
صبح به خیر
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
لطفا
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
متاسف
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
خدا حافظ
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
من شما را دوست دارم
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ببخشيد!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Western Persian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Iran, Iraq
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Dari Persian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tajik Persian
Where They Speak
China
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
فارسی
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
French Name
tibétain
persan
German Name
Tibetisch
Persisch
Pronunciation
Not Available
[fɒːɾˈsiː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Persian people
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Iranian
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Persian and Middle Persian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Persian
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
fars1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAC-c
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Synthetic
Tibetan and Persian Speaking population
Tibetan and Persian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Persian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Persian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Persian language is 0.99 %. 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 Persian on Tibetan vs Persian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tibetan and Persian Language Codes
Tibetan and Persian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Persian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.