Countries
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Austria
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th 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
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Church Slavonic
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bok
  
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 noć
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
dobra večer
  
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
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Oprostite
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Doviđenja
  
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
Ispričavam se
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Chakavian
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Chakavian
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Croatia
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Shtokavian
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
13,000,000.00
  
5
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
89.00 million
  
18
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
5.60 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
1.25 million
  
36
Not Available
  
Native Name
hrvatski
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Hrvatski
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
croate
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Kroatisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Croats
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
9th 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
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Croatian Sign Language
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
hr
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hrv
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
hrv
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
hrv
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
croa1245
  
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
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Not Available