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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  
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Derived From
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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  
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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  
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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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