Countries
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
China, Nepal
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 in
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Eastern Slovak
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Central Slovak
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Western Slovak
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
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
Origin
6th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Slavic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Western
Not Available
Early Forms
Proto-Slavic
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Slovak
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Not Available
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Not Available
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
slov1269
tibe1272
Linguasphere
53-AAA-db
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Not Available
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.
