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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   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
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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]   
Not Available   

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
Not Available   
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional   
Not Available   

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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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