Countries
China, Nepal
  
Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, European Union, Herzegovina, Italy, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Austria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
  
Austria, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Romania
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics
  
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.
  
- In croatian language, everywhere there are words without vowels.
- Though croatian language was born in 9th century, the first written document in croatian was in 11th century.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Serbain and Bosnian
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Church Slavonic
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Croatian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
bok
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
hvala
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
kako si
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
laku noć
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
dobra večer
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
dobar dan
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
dobro jutro
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
molim
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Oprostite
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Doviđenja
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Volim te
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Ispričavam se
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Chakavian
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Croatia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Shtokavian
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
13,000,000.00
  
5
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
89.00 million
  
18
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
5.60 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
1.25 million
  
36
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
hrvatski
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Hrvatski
  
French Name
tibétain
  
croate
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Kroatisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[xř̩ʋaːtskiː]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Croats
  
Origin
c. 650
  
9th century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Pluricentric Standard Serbo-Croatian
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Croatian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
hr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
hrv
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
croa1245
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
part of 53-AAA-g
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic