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Slovene vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Slovene


Countries

Countries
European Union, Slovenia  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Austria, Hungary, Italy  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • The Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
  • The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  
  • 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
Serbo-Croatian  
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Derived From
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Alphabets

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

Alphabets
25  
7
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
20  
10
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
11
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
Kako se imate?  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Lahko noč  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

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

Good Afternoon
Dober dan  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Dobro jutro  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Prosim  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Oprostite  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
80,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
27

Dialect 2
Resian  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Italy  
Bhutan, China  

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

Dialect 3
Styrian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Slovenia  
China  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
48  
31
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
Not Available  

Native Speakers
2.50 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Native Name
Not available  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Slovenian, Slovenscina  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
slovène  
tibétain  

German Name
Slowenisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]  
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Ethnicity
Slovenes  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
972-1093  
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
Slovene  
Standard Tibetan  

Signed Forms
Not Available  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
Not Available  

Code

ISO 639 1
sl  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
slv  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
slv  
tib  

ISO 639 3
slv  
bod  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
slov1268  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
53-AAA-f  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
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Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
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Slovene and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Slovene vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Slovene and Tibetan language. History of Slovene language states that this language originated in 972-1093 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 Slovene and Tibetan Language History.

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

Slovene vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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