Countries
China, Nepal
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institute of the Estonian Language
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
59
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3018
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
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
24 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Tere
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
aitäh
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Head ööd
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Tere päevast
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Tere hommikust
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Palun
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Vabandust
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Head aega
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Tartu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Idamurre
Where They Speak
China
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
68
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million1.10 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.03 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million0.95 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Eesti keel
French Name
tibétain
estonien
German Name
Tibetisch
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Estonians
Origin
c. 650
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Estonian
Language Position
2922
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
-
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
bo
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
est
ISO 639 2/B
tib
est
ISO 639 3
bod
est
ISO 639 6
bod
est
Glottocode
tibe1272
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative