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Tibetan vs Slovene


Slovene vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
European Union, Slovenia  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Slovenia  

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  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts  

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 Freising Monuments is the oldest preserved records of written Slovene from 10th century.
  • The first Slovene book was printed in 1550.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Serbo-Croatian  

Derived From
Not Available  
Not Available  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
25  
7

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
5  
2

How Many Consonants
30  
20
20  
10

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
44 weeks  
11

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
Halo  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
Hvala  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
Kako se imate?  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
Lahko noč  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Dober večer  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
Dober dan  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
Dobro jutro  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
Prosim  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
Oprostite  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
Nasvidenje  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
Ljubim te  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
Oprostite  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Prekmurje Slovene  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Hungary, Slovenia  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
80,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Resian  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Italy  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
Not Available  

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Styrian  

Where They Speak
China  
Slovenia  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
Not Available  

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
48  
31

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)  
Not available  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Slovenian, Slovenscina  

French Name
tibétain  
slovène  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Slowenisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[slɔˈʋèːnski ˈjɛ̀ːzik], [slɔˈʋèːnʃt͡ʃina]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Slovenes  

History

Origin
c. 650  
972-1093  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Not Available  

Branch
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
No early forms  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Slovene  

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Not Available  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
sl  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
slv  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
slv  

ISO 639 3
bod  
slv  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
slov1268  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
53-AAA-f  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Fusional  

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Tibetan and Slovene Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Slovene language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Slovene language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Slovene language states that this language originated in 972-1093. 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 Slovene Language History.

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Tibetan and Slovene 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 Slovene greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Slovene language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Slovene word for "Thank You" is Hvala. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Slovene Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Slovene Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Slovene difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Slovene 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 Slovene are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Slovene, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Slovene time required is 44 weeks.

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