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Bosnian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
University of Sarajevo  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
  • 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
Serbian and Croatian  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
30  
12
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
25  
15
30  
20

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

Writing Direction
-  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5  
4
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
Laku noc  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Dobro veće  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Dobar dan  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Dobro jutro  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
molim vas  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Oprostite  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

I Love You
Volim te  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Shtokavian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00  
34
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Chakavian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
660,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Kajkavian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Croatia  
China  

How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00  
23
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
3.00 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
20.00 million  
30
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

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

French Name
bosniaque  
tibétain  

German Name
Bosnisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Bosniaks  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
19th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Bosnian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
24  
22
29  
27

Signed Forms
Bosnian Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
bs  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bos  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
bos  
tib  

ISO 639 3
bos  
bod  

ISO 639 6
boss  
bod  

Glottocode
bosn1245  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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Bosnian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Bosnian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Bosnian and Tibetan language. History of Bosnian language states that this language originated in 19th Century whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. 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 Bosnian and Tibetan Language History.

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Bosnian and Tibetan 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 Bosnian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Tibetan language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bosnian vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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