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Macedonian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Macedonian


Countries

Countries
Macedonia   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
1   
14
2   
13

National Language
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   
Nepal, Tibet   

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

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Albania, Romania, Serbia   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
  • The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian 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
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
31   
13
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
26   
16
30   
20

Scripts
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Not Available   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3   
2
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Добар ден (Dobar den)   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Добро утро (Dobro utro)   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Ве молиме (Ve molime)   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
жал (žal)   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
Те сакам (Te sakam)   
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།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Torlakian   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
1.50   
99+
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Debar   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Macedonia   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Galičnik   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Macedonia   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
28   
23
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
2.50 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
macédonien   
tibétain   

German Name
Makedonisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Macedonians   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
2200 BC   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Southern   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Macedonian   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Macedonian Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
mk   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
mkd   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
mac   
tib   

ISO 639 3
mkd   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
mace1250   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-ha   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Analytic   
Not Available   

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Macedonian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Macedonian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Macedonian and Tibetan language. History of Macedonian language states that this language originated in 2200 BC 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 Macedonian and Tibetan Language History.

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

Macedonian vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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