Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
India, Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
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.
- Punjabi is 2nd most spoken in United Kingdom and 4th most spoken in Canada.
- Punjabi is tonal language, by using various tones Punjabi speakers are able to differentiate between words.
Similar To
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Hindi Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
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Punjabi-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Gurmukhi, Shahmukhi
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (namaskar)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
ਤੁਹਾਡਾ ਕੀ ਹਾਲ ਹੈ? (tuhāḍā kī hāl he?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
ਸ਼ੁੱਭ ਰਾਤਰੀ (shubh rātri)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
ਨਮਸਕਾਰ (Namasakāra)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
ਸਤ ਸੀ੍ ਅਕਾਲ (Sat sri akaal)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ (kirpā karkē)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
ਖਿਮਾ/ਮਾਫ਼ ਕਰੋ ਜੀ। (kimā)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
ਫਿਰ ਮਿਲਾੰਗੇ (Fair milaange)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ਮੈਂ ਤੈਨੂੰ ਪਿਆਰ ਕਰਦਾ ਹਾਂ। (mẽ tenū̃ piār kardā hā̃)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
ਵੇਖੋ ਜੀ। (vēkhō jī)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Pothohari
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Pakistan
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Saraiki
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Afganistan, India, Pakistan
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Doabi
Where They Speak
China
Pakistan, Punjab, India
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ, پنجابی
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Lahanda, Lahnda, Lahndi, Lahori, Majhi, Gurmukhi, Gurumukhi, Panjabi
French Name
tibétain
pendjabi
German Name
Tibetisch
Pandschabi-Sprache
Pronunciation
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Not Availble
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Punjabis
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Shauraseni, Kaikeyi
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Punjabi
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Not Available
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ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
tibe1272
panj1256
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
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Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
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Fusional
Tibetan and Punjabi 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 Punjabi greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Punjabi language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Punjabi word for "Thank You" is ਸ਼ੁਕਰੀਆ (shukrīā). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Punjabi Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Punjabi Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Punjabi difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Punjabi 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 Punjabi are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Punjabi, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Punjabi time required is 6 weeks.
