Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Finland
Total No. Of Countries
22
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland
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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3013
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
24
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)
Moi
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Kiitos
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Mitä kuuluu?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
hyvää yötä
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Hyvää iltaa
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Hyvää iltapäivää
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Hyvää huomenta
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
haluta
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Anteeksi
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Heippa
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Minä rakastan sinua
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Anteeksi
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Colloquial Finnish
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Finland
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.005,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Rauma
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Finland, Rauma
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.005,600,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
China
Finland, Sweden
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0060,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
621
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.40 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million5.40 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million0.01 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
suomi / suomen kieli
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Suomi
French Name
tibétain
finnois
German Name
Tibetisch
Finnisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[ˈsuomi]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
ethnic Finns
Origin
c. 650
1543
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
standard Finnish
Language Position
2922
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
fi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
fin
ISO 639 2/B
tib
fin
ISO 639 3
bod
fin
ISO 639 6
bod
fin
Glottocode
tibe1272
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic