Countries
Bulgaria, European Union
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Bulgaria
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
- 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
Macedonian language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Моля (Molja)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Panagyurishte
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Pirdop
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
7.80 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
7.80 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
български (bãlgarski)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Balgarski
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
bulgare
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Bulgarisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Slavic
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Southern
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Standard Bulgarian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
bg
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bul
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
bul
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
bul
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
buls
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
bulg1262
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-hb
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available