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Tibetan and Serbian


Serbian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia   

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   
Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Board for Standardization of the Serbian 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.
  
  • Serbian language was derived from the Old Church Salvic, as the language was commonly spoken by most of Slavic people in the 9th Century.
  • Serbian language is based on Stokavian dialect.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Bosnian and Croatian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
30   
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
5   
2

How Many Consonants
30   
20
25   
15

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Cyrillic, Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
5   
4

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)   
Здраво (Zdravo)   

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

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

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   
Лаку ноћ (Laku noć)   

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Добро вече (Dobro veče)   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Добар дан (Dobar dan)   

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Молим (Molim)   

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   
Жао ми је (Žao mi je)   

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

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

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།   
Извините (Izvinite)   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Prizren-Timok   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Southeastern Serbia   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Smederevo–Vršac   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Serbia   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Torlakian   

Where They Speak
China   
Bulgaria, France, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
1,500,000.00   
17

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
3   
3

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
8.70 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
српски (srpski) српски језик (srpski jezik)   

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

French Name
tibétain   
serbe   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Serbisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[sr̩̂pskiː]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Serbs   

History

Origin
c. 650   
11th 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   
Standard Serbian   

Language Position
Not Available   
44   
33

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Not Available   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
sr   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
srp   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
srp   

ISO 639 3
bod   
srp   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
serb1264   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
53-AAA-g   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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All Tibetan and Serbian Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tibetan and Serbian dialects. Various dialects of Tibetan and Serbian language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tibetan are spoken in different Tibetan Speaking Countries whereas Serbian Dialects are spoken in different Serbian speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tibetan vs Serbian Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan, Khams Tibetan. Serbian dialects include: Prizren-Timok , Smederevo–Vršac. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Tibetan and Serbian Speaking population

Tibetan and Serbian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Serbian languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Serbian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Serbian language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tibetan and Serbian on Tibetan vs Serbian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Serbian Language Codes

Tibetan and Serbian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tibetan and Serbian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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