Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Pakistan
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Not Available
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.
Similar To
Not Available
Hindi and Urdu Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic, Perso-Arabic script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Assalām ‘alaikum
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
तोहय छिवा वारय? (tohy ch'ivaa vaarai?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
शबे खैर । (shabey k'eūr)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Not Available
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Hach t'ochoktiya
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Hach ch'i
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Not Available
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
माफ कॅरिव । (maap' keuriv)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Khuda hāfiz
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
be chus che seth mohabat karaan
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
वय त्रॅाविव । (vat' treūviv)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kashtawari
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India, Koshtawar valley, southeast kashmir, India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Poguli
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Pogul and Paristan valleys
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Rambani
Where They Speak
China
India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
कॉशुर / كٲشُر
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Cashmeeree, Cashmiri, Kacmiri, Kaschemiri, Keshur, Koshur
French Name
tibétain
kashmiri
German Name
Tibetisch
Kaschmiri
Pronunciation
Not Available
[kəːʃur]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Kashmiris or koshur
Origin
c. 650
12th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Kashmiri
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
kash1277
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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Tibetan and Kashmiri 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 Kashmiri greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Kashmiri language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Kashmiri word for "Thank You" is शुकिया / شکریہ (shukriya). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Kashmiri Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Kashmiri Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Kashmiri difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kashmiri 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 Kashmiri are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kashmiri, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kashmiri time required is 44 weeks.