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Tibetan and Serbian


Serbian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

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

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

Alphabets
35  
17
30  
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
25  
15

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Cyrillic, Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
5  
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
17

Greetings

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)  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Prizren-Timok  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Southeastern Serbia  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
99+
12,000,000.00  
35

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Smederevo–Vršac  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Serbia  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
99+
12,000,000.00  
34

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Torlakian  

Where They Speak
China  
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
99+
1,500,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
3  
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
12.00 million  
38

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  

History

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
29  
27
44  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Srpski Znakovni Jezik (SZJ)  

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

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  
53-AAA-g  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Tibetan and Serbian 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 Tibetan and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Serbian Speaking population

Tibetan and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is 0.13 %. 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 Tibetan and Serbian on Tibetan vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Serbian Language Codes

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

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