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Tibetan vs Balochi


Balochi vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Afganistan, Iran, Oman, Pakistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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
Not Available  
Kurdish and Persian  

Derived From
Not Available  
Ancient Indo-Iranian Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
34  
16

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
26  
16

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Perso-Arabic script  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
3  
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

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།  
Not Available  

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  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Eastern Balochi  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Pakistan  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
5,000,000.00  
17

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Western Balochi  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
1,800,000.00  
20

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Southern Balochi  

Where They Speak
China  
Iran, Oman, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
3,400,000.00  
10

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.11 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
7.60 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
c. 650  
19th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

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  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
No data available  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
bal  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
bal  

ISO 639 3
bod  
bal  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
balo1260  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
58-AAB-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Balochi Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Balochi language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Balochi language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Balochi language states that this language originated in 19th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Balochi Language History.

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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.

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