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Tibetan and Finnish


Finnish and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

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
Not Available   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
30   
20
13   
3

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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   

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
China   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
21   
19

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

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
Not Available   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1543   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

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
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
finn1318   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative, Synthetic   

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

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Tibetan and Finnish Speaking population

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Tibetan and Finnish Language Codes

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

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