Countries
Estonia, European Union
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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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 in
Alphabets
2735
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1830
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
22
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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།
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Tartu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Idamurre
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
China
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
86
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.10 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.03 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
0.95 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
1.10 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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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
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
2229
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
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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