Countries
China, Nepal
  
Czech Republic, European Union, Serbia, Slovakia
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Slovakia, Vojvodina, 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
  
Czech Republic, Hungary, Russia, Ukraine
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Ministry of Culture of the Slovak Republic
  
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.
  
- Slovak language was written using Glagolitic Alphabets,in 1843.
- Until the end of 18th century, Slovak did not exist as written language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Czech Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Czech-Slovak Language
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Slovak-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)
  
Ahoj
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Ďakujem vám
  
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Ako sa máte?
  
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Dobrú noc
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Dobrý večer
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Dobré popoludnie
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Dobré ráno
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Prosím
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Pardón!
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Dovidenia
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Ľúbim Ťa
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Prepáčte!
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Eastern Slovak
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Abov, Saris, Spis, Zemplin
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Central Slovak
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Gemer, Hont, Liptov, Novohrad, Orava, Tekov, Turiec
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Western Slovak
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Kysuce, Nitra, Trencin, Trnava, Zahorie
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
5.20 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
slovenčina
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Slovakian, Slovencina
  
French Name
tibétain
  
slovaque
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Slowakisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Slovaks
  
Origin
c. 650
  
6th Century
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Proto-Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Slovak
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
sk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
slk
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
slo
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
slk
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
slov1269
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-db
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Synthetic