Countries
China, Nepal
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
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
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Czech-Slovak Language
Alphabets in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Central Slovak
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Western Slovak
Where They Speak
China
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
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
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Slovak
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Slovak Sign Language
Glottocode
tibe1272
slov1269
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-db
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Synthetic
Tibetan and Slovak Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Slovak greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Slovak language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Slovak word for "Thank You" is Ďakujem vám. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Slovak Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Slovak Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Slovak difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Slovak Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Slovak are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Slovak, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Slovak time required is 44 weeks.