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
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Croatia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
China
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Romania
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
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
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 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
croa1245
Linguasphere
No data Available
part of 53-AAA-g
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Fusional, Synthetic
Tibetan and Croatian 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 Croatian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Croatian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Croatian word for "Thank You" is hvala. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Croatian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Croatian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Croatian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Croatian 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 Croatian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Croatian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Croatian time required is 44 weeks.