Countries
Countries
China, Nepal
India, Pakistan
Total No. Of Countries
2
13
2
13
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Pakistan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Pakistan
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
India
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, 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.
- Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
- Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
Similar To
Not Available
Arabic and Hindi Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Ghaznavid Persian Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
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Urdu-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
35
17
52
31
Phonology
How Many Vowels
5
2
10
7
How Many Consonants
30
20
40
29
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Arabic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
2
1
4
3
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks
6
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
خوش آمديد
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
آپ کا شکریہ
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
آپ کیسے ہیں؟
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
گڈ نائٹ
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
سلام علیکم
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
گڈ آفٹر نون
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
گڈ مارننگ
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
براہ مہربانی
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
معاف کرنا
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
الوداع
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
مجھے تم سے محبت
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
معاف کیجئے گا
Dialects
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Dakhini
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
India
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
27
11,000,000.00
12
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Hyderabadi Urdu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
India
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
23
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Rekhta
Where They Speak
China
South Asia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
16
Not Available
Total No. Of Dialects
6
6
3
3
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
99+
104.00 million
15
Speaking Population
Not Available
0.99 %
20
Native Speakers
1.20 million
99+
61.00 million
19
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
43.00 million
14
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
اُردُو
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Bihari
French Name
tibétain
ourdou
German Name
Tibetisch
Urdu
Pronunciation
Not Available
[ˈʊrd̪u]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Not Available
History
Origin
c. 650
12th Century CE
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Indo-Iranian
Branch
Not Available
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Modern Standard Urdu
Language Position
Not Available
20
18
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Urdu
Scope
Not Available
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
bo
ur
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
urd
ISO 639 2/B
tib
urd
ISO 639 3
bod
urd
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
urdu1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
59-AAF-q
Types of Language
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional
