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Swedish and Tibetan


Tibetan and Swedish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
4  
11
2  
13

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  
-  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
29  
11
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
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Dialects  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Gabon  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00  
9
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Dialects  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Georgia  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00  
7
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Dialects  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
France  
China  

How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00  
5
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
79  
33
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.13 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
8.70 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
13th Century  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Swedish  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Swedish  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
89  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

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  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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All Swedish 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 Swedish and Tibetan dialects. Various dialects of Swedish and Tibetan language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Swedish are spoken in different Swedish Speaking Countries whereas Tibetan Dialects are spoken in different Tibetan speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Swedish vs Tibetan Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Swedish dialects include: Dialects, Dialects. Tibetan dialects include: Central Tibetan , Khams Tibetan. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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Swedish and Tibetan Speaking population

Swedish and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % 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 Swedish and Tibetan on Swedish vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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