Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Slovenia
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia
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
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
- The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Serbo-Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3525
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
55
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
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
22
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)
Halo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Hvala
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Kako se imate?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Lahko noč
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Dober večer
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Dober dan
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Dobro jutro
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Prosim
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Oprostite
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Nasvidenje
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Ljubim te
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Prekmurje Slovene
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Hungary, Slovenia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Resian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Italy
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.002,500,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Styrian
Where They Speak
China
Slovenia
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.002,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
648
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million2.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Slovenščina
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Slovenian, Slovenscina
French Name
tibétain
slovène
German Name
Tibetisch
Slowenisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Slovenes
Origin
c. 650
972-1093
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
Slovene
Language Position
2928
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Slovene Sign Language
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
sl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
slv
ISO 639 2/B
tib
slv
ISO 639 3
bod
slv
ISO 639 6
bod
slv
Glottocode
tibe1272
slov1268
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-f
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional