Countries
China, Nepal
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
Total No. Of Countries
29
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Austria
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
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
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.
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Serbain and Bosnian
Derived From
-
Church Slavonic
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
Latin
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)
bok
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
hvala
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
kako si
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
laku noć
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
dobra večer
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
dobar dan
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
dobro jutro
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
molim
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Oprostite
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Doviđenja
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Volim te
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Ispričavam se
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Chakavian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00660,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
China
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0013,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
679
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million89.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %89.00 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million5.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million1.25 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
hrvatski
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Hrvatski
French Name
tibétain
croate
German Name
Tibetisch
Kroatisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Croats
Origin
c. 650
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
Language Position
2923
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Croatian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
hr
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
hrv
ISO 639 2/B
tib
hrv
ISO 639 3
bod
hrv
ISO 639 6
bod
hrv
Glottocode
tibe1272
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional, Synthetic