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Bosnian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Bosnian


Countries

Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
University of Sarajevo   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
  • The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Serbian and Croatian   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Bosnian-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
30   
12
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
25   
15
30   
20

Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
5   
4
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Zdravo   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Hvala   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Kako si?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Laku noc   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Dobro veće   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Dobar dan   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Dobro jutro   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
molim vas   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Oprostite   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Zbogom   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
Volim te   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Oprostite   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Shtokavian   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00   
11
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Chakavian   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
660,000.00   
28
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Kajkavian   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Croatia   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
6   
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
3.50 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
3.00 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Not Available   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
bosniaque   
tibétain   

German Name
Bosnisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[bɔ̌sanskiː]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Bosniaks   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
19th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Not Available   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Bosnian   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
bs   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bos   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
bos   
tib   

ISO 639 3
bos   
bod   

ISO 639 6
boss   
Not Available   

Glottocode
bosn1245   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
part of 53-AAA-g   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
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Bosnian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Bosnian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Bosnian and Tibetan language. History of Bosnian language states that this language originated in 19th Century whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Bosnian and Tibetan Language History.

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Bosnian and Tibetan 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 Bosnian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Bosnian and Tibetan language. Bosnian word for "Hello" is Zdravo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Bosnian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Bosnian vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Bosnian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Bosnian Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Bosnian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Bosnian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Bosnian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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