Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
42
0
46
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National Language
Sweden
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Finland
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
- Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
- 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
Norwegian and Danish Language
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
Old Norse Language
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2935
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
62
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hej
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
tacka dig
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
hur mår du
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
godnatt
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
god kväll
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
god morgon
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
vänligen
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
ledsen
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
hej då
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
jag älskar dig
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
ursäkta mig
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Dialects
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gabon
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Dialects
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Georgia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
78,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Dialects
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France
China
How Many People Speak
96,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
796
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
15.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.13 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
8.70 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Svenska
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Ruotsi, Svenska
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
suédois
tibétain
German Name
Schwedisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes
tibetan people
Origin
13th Century
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
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Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Swedish
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Swedish
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
8929
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
sv
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
swe
bod
ISO 639 2/B
swe
tib
ISO 639 3
swe
bod
ISO 639 6
swe
bod
Glottocode
swed1254
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
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