Countries
China, Nepal
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institute for the Bulgarian 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.
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3530
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3036
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
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)
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Pirdop
Where They Speak
China
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
658
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million7.80 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.21 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million7.80 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Balgarski
French Name
tibétain
bulgare
German Name
Tibetisch
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Bulgarian people
Origin
c. 650
9th Century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
2988
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
bul
ISO 639 2/B
tib
bul
ISO 639 3
bod
bul
ISO 639 6
bod
buls
Glottocode
tibe1272
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
-