1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
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
Pakistan
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
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.
- Pashto language is originated in the regions of Paktika and Paktia areas of Afghanistan.
- The first Pashto poem was written in the 7th century.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Persian and Balochi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
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)
(salaam) سلام
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
(lotfan) لطفا
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
زه ستا سره مينه کوم (za la ta sara meena kawom)
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Central Pashto
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.006,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Pashto
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0021,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
Afganistan, Pakistan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0095,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million60.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
(paṧto) پښتو
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
5.5 Ethnicity
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
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data Available
58-ABD-a
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