Countries
China, Nepal
  
Macedonia
  
National Language
Nepal, Tibet
  
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, 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
  
Albania, Romania, Serbia
  
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
  
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.
  
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
  
Derived From
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Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Здраво (Zdravo)
  
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
  
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)
  
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
  
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
  
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Добар ден (Dobar den)
  
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
  
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
  
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
жал (žal)
  
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
Чао (Čao)
  
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Те сакам (Te sakam)
  
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
  
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
  
Torlakian
  
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
  
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
  
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
  
Debar
  
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00
  
23
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
  
Galičnik
  
Where They Speak
China
  
Macedonia
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.20 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.20 million
  
99+
2.50 million
  
99+
Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
  
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
  
French Name
tibétain
  
macédonien
  
German Name
Tibetisch
  
Makedonisch
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
  
Ethnicity
tibetan people
  
Macedonians
  
Origin
c. 650
  
2200 BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
  
Macedonian
  
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Macedonian Sign Language
  
Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
mk
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
mac
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
mkd
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
tibe1272
  
mace1250
  
Linguasphere
No data Available
  
53-AAA-ha
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Not Available
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
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Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Analytic
  
Tibetan and Macedonian 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 Macedonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Macedonian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Macedonian word for "Thank You" is Благодарам (Blagodaram). Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Macedonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Macedonian Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Macedonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Macedonian 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 Macedonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Macedonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Macedonian time required is 44 weeks.