Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan
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
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Kurdish and Persian
Derived From
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Ancient Indo-Iranian Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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།
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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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Eastern Balochi
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Pakistan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Western Balochi
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Southern Balochi
Where They Speak
China
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates
Speaking Population
Not Available
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
Origin
c. 650
19th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
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Branch
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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
ISO 639 1
bo
No data available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
balo1260
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-AAB-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Tibetan and Balochi Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Balochi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Balochi language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Balochi word for "Thank You" is mana bebahgsh. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Balochi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Balochi Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Balochi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Balochi Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Balochi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Balochi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Balochi time required is 44 weeks.