Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Afganistan, Pakistan, Pashtun diaspora
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
Pakistan
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan, Pashto Academy (Pakistan)
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.
Similar To
Not Available
Persian and Balochi Languages
Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
(salaam) سلام
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
(manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
(ta sanga yee?) څنگه يې؟
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
(shpa mo pa kheyr) شپه مو په خير
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
(maakhaam mo pa kheyr) ماښام مو په خير
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
(wradz mo pa kheyr) ورځ مو په خير
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
(sahr pikheyr) سحر پخير
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
(lotfan) لطفا
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
(zeh mutaasif yum) زه هتاسف يم
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
(da khoday pa amaan) دخداى په امان
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)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
(bakhena ghwaarum) بخښنه غواړم
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Central Pashto
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Afganistan, Pakistan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Northern Pashto
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, Pakistan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Wanetsi
Where They Speak
China
Afganistan, Pakistan
Speaking Population
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
(paṧto) پښتو
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Kandahar Pashto, Qandahar Pashto, Southwestern Pashto, Pushto
French Name
tibétain
pachto
German Name
Tibetisch
Paschtu
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈpəʂt̪oː], [ˈpʊxt̪oː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Pashtun
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Iranian
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Central Pashto, Northern Pashto, Yusufzai Pashto, Southern Pashto
Language Position
Not Available
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Not Available
Scope
Not Available
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
pash1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
58-ABD-a
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
Tibetan and Pashto 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 Pashto greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Pashto language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Pashto word for "Thank You" is (manana) مننه (tashakor) تشكر. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Pashto Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Pashto Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Pashto difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Pashto 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 Pashto are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Pashto, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Pashto time required is 44 weeks.