Countries
China, Nepal
  
Bulgaria, European Union
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Bulgaria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa, Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Institute for the Bulgarian language
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- The only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Macedonian language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Bulgarian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Как си? (Kak si?)
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Моля (Molja)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Довиждане (Doviždane)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Обичам те (Običam te)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Panagyurishte
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Pirdop
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Bulgaria
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
7.80 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
български (bãlgarski)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Balgarski
  
French Name
tibétain
  
bulgare
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Bulgarisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
c. 650
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Standard Bulgarian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Bulgarian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
bg
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
bul
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
bul
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
bul
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
buls
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
bulg1262
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-hb
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available