Home
Languagevs


Tibetan vs Macedonian


Macedonian vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
Macedonia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
1  
14

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
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
31  
13

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
26  
16

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille  

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal  
Not Available  

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)  
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)  

Dialects

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
1.50  
99+

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  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
28  
23

How Many People Speak

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  

History

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  

Code

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  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Analytic  

Countries >>
<< All

Tibetan and Macedonian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Macedonian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Macedonian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Macedonian language states that this language originated in 2200 BC. 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 Macedonian Language History.

Compare Easiest Languages to Learn

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.

Easiest Languages to Learn

Easiest Languages to Learn

» More Easiest Languages to Learn

Compare Easiest Languages to Learn

» More Compare Easiest Languages to Learn