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Slovak vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Slovak


Countries

Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
2   
13

National Language
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
  • Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written 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
Czech Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Czech-Slovak Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
46   
26
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
15   
12
5   
2

How Many Consonants
38   
27
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

Hello
Ahoj   
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   

Thank You
Ďakujem vám   
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)   

How Are You?
Ako sa máte?   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

Good Night
Dobrú noc   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Dobrý večer   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Dobré popoludnie   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Dobré ráno   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Prosím   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Pardón!   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

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

I Love You
Ľúbim Ťa   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

Excuse Me
Prepáčte!   
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Central Slovak   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Western Slovak   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie   
China   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
4   
4
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
5.20 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
slovenčina   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Slovakian, Slovencina   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
slovaque   
tibétain   

German Name
Slowakisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Slovaks   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
6th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Slavic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Western   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Slavic   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Slovak   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Not Available   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
sk   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
slk   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
slo   
tib   

ISO 639 3
slk   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
slov1269   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
53-AAA-db   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic   
Not Available   

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Slovak and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Slovak vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Slovak and Tibetan language. History of Slovak language states that this language originated in 6th Century 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 Slovak and Tibetan Language History.

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

Slovak vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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