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Tibetan vs Persian


Persian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Afganistan, Iran, Tajikistan   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
3   
12

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Afganistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates   

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   

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.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Pashto and Balochi Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Arabic Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
32   
14

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
23   
13

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Arabic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
شب بخیر   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
عصر بخیر   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
بعد از ظهر بخیر   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
صبح به خیر   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
لطفا   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
متاسف   

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   
خدا حافظ   

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
من شما را دوست دارم   

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
ببخشيد!   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Western Persian   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Iran, Iraq   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
47,000,000.00   
7

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Dari Persian   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Afganistan   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
12,500,000.00   
7

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Tajik Persian   

Where They Speak
China   
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
7,900,000.00   
6

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
12   
12

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.20 million   
99+
65.00 million   
26

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.99 %   
20

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
65.00 million   
17

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
فارسی   

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   
New Persian, Parsi, Persian, West Persian   

French Name
tibétain   
persan   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Persisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[fɒːɾˈsiː]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Persian people   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1500 BC   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Indo-Iranian   

Branch
Not Available   
Iranian   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Persian and Middle Persian   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Persian   

Language Position
Not Available   
23   
19

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Persian Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
fa   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
fas   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
per   

ISO 639 3
bod   
pes   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
fars1254   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
58-AAC-c   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Object-Verb   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Persian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Persian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Persian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Persian language states that this language originated in 1500 BC. 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 Persian Language History.

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

Tibetan vs Persian Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Persian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Persian 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 Persian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Persian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Persian time required is 44 weeks.

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