Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, Serbia
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written 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
Czech Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
4635
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
155
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3830
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Ahoj
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Ďakujem vám
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Ako sa máte?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
Dobrú noc
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Dobrý večer
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Dobré ráno
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Prosím
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Pardón!
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Dovidenia
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Prepáčte!
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
China
How Many People Speak
5,500,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
46
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.20 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.14 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.20 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
slovenčina
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
slovaque
tibétain
German Name
Slowakisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsləʊvæk]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Slovaks
tibetan people
Origin
6th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Slovak
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Slovak Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sk
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
slk
bod
ISO 639 2/B
slo
tib
ISO 639 3
slk
bod
ISO 639 6
slk
bod
Glottocode
slov1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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