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Tibetan vs Kurdish


Kurdish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Iraq, Kurdistan  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Middle East  

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.
  
  • The vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
  • In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
  

Similar To
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Farsi Language  

Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
33  
15

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
8  
5

How Many Consonants
30  
20
29  
19

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
4  
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
4 weeks  
2

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Silaw  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Sipas  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Tu çawa yî?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Şev xweş  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Evare baş  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Nee-wa-rowt bash  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Bayanit bash  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Bê zehmet  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Bibûre  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Be xêr çî  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Ez te hez dikem  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Bê zehmet  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Northern Kurdish  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
20,000,000.00  
10

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Central Kurdish  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
5,000,000.00  
14

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Southern Kurdish  

Where They Speak
China  
Eastern Iraq  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
3,000,000.00  
12

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million  
99+
28.00 million  
38

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.31 %  
39

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
21.00 million  
36

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Not Available  

French Name
tibétain  
kurde  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Kurdisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
Not Available  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Kurds  

History

Origin
c. 650  
16th century CE  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Indo-Iranian  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Not Available  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Kurdish  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Macrolanguage  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
ku  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
kur  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
kur  

ISO 639 3
bod  
kur  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
kurd1259  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
58-AAA-a  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Object-Verb  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Kurdish Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Kurdish language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Kurdish language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Kurdish language states that this language originated in 16th century CE. 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 Kurdish Language History.

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Tibetan and Kurdish 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 Kurdish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Kurdish language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Kurdish word for "Thank You" is Sipas. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Kurdish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Kurdish Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Kurdish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Kurdish 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 Kurdish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Kurdish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Kurdish time required is 4 weeks.

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