1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Academy of Persian Language and Literature (فرهنگستان زبان و اد, Academy of Sciences of Afghanistan
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.
- In Iran, Parsi language is known as Farsi, while in Afghanistan Persian language is known as Dari.
- Persian language has borrowed many loanwords from the Arabic language.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Pashto and Balochi Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Arabic 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
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)
سلام
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
متشکرم
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
چطور هستید?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
شب بخیر
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
عصر بخیر
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
بعد از ظهر بخیر
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
صبح به خیر
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
لطفا
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
متاسف
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
خدا حافظ
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
من شما را دوست دارم
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ببخشيد!
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Western Persian
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Iran, Iraq
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0047,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Dari Persian
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0012,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Tajik Persian
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.007,900,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million65.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million65.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
Persian people
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
Old Persian and Middle Persian
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Persian Sign Language
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-AAC-c
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