Countries
European Union, Slovenia
  
China, Nepal
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Slovene-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
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
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།
  
Dialect 1
Prekmurje Slovene
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Hungary, Slovenia
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
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
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
  
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
  
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
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Not Available
  
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.