Countries
China, Nepal
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, 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
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3531
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3026
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
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)
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
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)
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
жал (žal)
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Torlakian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Debar
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Galičnik
Where They Speak
China
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
628
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million2.50 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
tibétain
macédonien
German Name
Tibetisch
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Macedonians
Origin
c. 650
2200 BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Macedonian
Language Position
2945
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
tib
mac
ISO 639 3
bod
mkd
ISO 639 6
bod
mkd
Glottocode
tibe1272
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Analytic