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Tibetan vs Bulgarian


Bulgarian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Bulgaria, European Union   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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

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

Alphabets
35   
17
30   
12

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
6   
3

How Many Consonants
30   
20
36   
26

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Cyrillic   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
3   
2

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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)   

Dialects

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   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
58   
32

How Many People Speak

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   

History

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   
88   
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Bulgarian Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

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   

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Tibetan and Bulgarian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Bulgarian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Bulgarian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Bulgarian language states that this language originated in 9th Century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Bulgarian Language History.

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Tibetan and Bulgarian Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Bulgarian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Bulgarian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Bulgarian word for "Thank You" is Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Bulgarian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Bulgarian Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Bulgarian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Bulgarian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Bulgarian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Bulgarian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Bulgarian time required is 44 weeks.

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