Countries
China, Nepal
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
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.
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3025
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
25
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Молим (Molim)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Волим те (Volim te)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Извините (Izvinite)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Prizren-Timok
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Southeastern Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0012,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Smederevo–Vršac
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0012,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Torlakian
Where They Speak
China
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
63
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million8.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million12.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Montenegrin
French Name
tibétain
serbe
German Name
Tibetisch
Serbisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[sr̩̂pskiː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Serbs
Origin
c. 650
11th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Serbian
Language Position
2944
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
sr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
srp
ISO 639 2/B
tib
srp
ISO 639 3
bod
srp
ISO 639 6
bod
srp
Glottocode
tibe1272
serb1264
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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