Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
- 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2935
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1330
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
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Moi
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
Kiitos
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
hyvää yötä
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
haluta
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
Anteeksi
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
Heippa
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
Anteeksi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Finland
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Rauma
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
5,600,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Meänkieli
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden
China
How Many People Speak
60,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
216
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.40 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
0.01 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Suomi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
finnois
tibétain
German Name
Finnisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
tibetan people
Origin
1543
c. 650
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
2229
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
fi
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fin
bod
ISO 639 2/B
fin
tib
ISO 639 3
fin
bod
ISO 639 6
fin
bod
Glottocode
finn1318
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
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