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Estonian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Estonian


Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
2  
13

National Language
Estonia, Gambia  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe  
Asia  

Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Finnish  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27  
9
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9  
6
5  
2

How Many Consonants
18  
8
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks  
17
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  

Good Night
Head ööd  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  

Good Evening
Tere õhtust  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Afternoon
Tere päevast  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  

Good Morning
Tere hommikust  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Palun  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

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

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

I Love You
ma armastan sind  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Keskmurre  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Tartu  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Idamurre  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
8  
8
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
1.10 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.03 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
0.95 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
1.10 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

Native Name
eesti keel  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  

Alternative Names
Eesti keel  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  

French Name
estonien  
tibétain  

German Name
Estnisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Estonians  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
13th century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Uralic Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Finnic  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Estonian  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
22  
20
29  
27

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Macrolanguage  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
et  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
est  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
est  
tib  

ISO 639 3
est  
bod  

ISO 639 6
est  
bod  

Glottocode
esto1258  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
No data available  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative  
-  

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All Estonian and Tibetan Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Estonian and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Estonian and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Estonian are spoken in different Estonian Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Estonian vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Estonian dialects include: Keskmurre, Tartu. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Estonian and Tibetan Speaking population

Estonian and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Estonian and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Estonian and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Estonian language is 0.03 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Estonian and Tibetan on Estonian vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Estonian and Tibetan Language Codes

Estonian and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Estonian and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.

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