Countries
China, Nepal
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovakia
  
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 in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Serbian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic, Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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)
  
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
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
  
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
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
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