1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Pakistan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
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1.8 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.
- Kashmiri is the only Daridc language with literature which was originated more than seven hundred and fifty years ago.
- Kashmiri has thousands of loan words from Persian and Arabic Languages.
1.9 Similar To
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Hindi and Urdu Languages
1.10 Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Assalām ‘alaikum
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
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3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Hach t'ochoktiya
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Hach ch'i
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Not Available
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Khuda hāfiz
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kashtawari
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Pogul and Paristan valleys
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.60 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million5.42 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kashmiris or koshur
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kashmiri
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
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7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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