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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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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
  
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
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.