Countries
China, Nepal
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
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.
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Czech Language
Derived From
-
Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3546
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3038
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
26
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)
Ahoj
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Ďakujem vám
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Ako sa máte?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Dobrú noc
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Dobrý večer
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Dobré popoludnie
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Dobré ráno
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Prosím
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Pardón!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Dovidenia
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ľúbim Ťa
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Prepáčte!
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Eastern Slovak
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
China
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.005,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.14 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million5.20 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
slovenčina
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Slovakian, Slovencina
French Name
tibétain
slovaque
German Name
Tibetisch
Slowakisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈsləʊvæk]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Slovaks
Origin
c. 650
6th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Slovak
Language Position
2927
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
sk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
slk
ISO 639 2/B
tib
slo
ISO 639 3
bod
slk
ISO 639 6
bod
slk
Glottocode
tibe1272
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-db
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic