Countries
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, 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
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Board for Standardization of the Serbian Language
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Interesting Facts
- Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
- Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  
- 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
Bosnian and Croatian Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Хвала лепо (Hvala lepo)
  
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
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Добро вече (Dobro veče)
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Добар дан (Dobar dan)
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Добро јутро (Dobro jutro)
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
Молим (Molim)
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Довиђења (Doviđenja)
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Волим те (Volim te)
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Prizren-Timok
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Southeastern Serbia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Smederevo–Vršac
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Serbia
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Torlakian
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
17
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
8.70 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
8.70 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Montenegrin
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
serbe
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Serbisch
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[sr̩̂pskiː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Serbs
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
11th 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
Standard Serbian
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
sr
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
srp
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
srp
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
srp
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
serb1264
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
53-AAA-g
  
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