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Urdu and Tibetan


Tibetan and Urdu


Countries

Countries
India, Pakistan   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Pakistan   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Pakistan   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania   
Asia   

Minority Language
India   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Arabic and Hindi Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Ghaznavid Persian Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
52   
31
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
10   
7
5   
2

How Many Consonants
40   
29
30   
20

Scripts
Arabic   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
خوش آمديد   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
آپ کا شکریہ   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
آپ کیسے ہیں؟   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
گڈ نائٹ   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
سلام علیکم   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
گڈ آفٹر نون   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
گڈ مارننگ   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
براہ مہربانی   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
معاف کرنا   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
مجھے تم سے محبت   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
معاف کیجئے گا   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Dakhini   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
India   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00   
12
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Hyderabadi Urdu   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
India   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Rekhta   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
South Asia   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
3   
3
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
104.00 million   
15
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
0.99 %   
20
Not Available   

Native Speakers
61.00 million   
19
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
43.00 million   
14
Not Available   

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

Alternative Names
Bihari   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
ourdou   
tibétain   

German Name
Urdu   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈʊrd̪u]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Not Available   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
12th Century CE   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Indo-Iranian   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Indic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Modern Standard Urdu   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
20   
18
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Signed Urdu   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
ur   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
urd   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
urd   
tib   

ISO 639 3
urd   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
urdu1245   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
59-AAF-q   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional   
Not Available   

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All Urdu and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Urdu and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Urdu and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Urdu are spoken in different Urdu Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Urdu vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Urdu dialects include: Dakhini, Hyderabadi Urdu. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Urdu and Tibetan Speaking population

Urdu and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Urdu and Tibetan on Urdu vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Urdu and Tibetan Language Codes

Urdu and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Urdu and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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