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Tibetan and Swedish


Swedish and Tibetan


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Finland  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Antartica, Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council  

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.
  
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  

Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  
Norwegian and Danish Language  

Derived From
-  
Old Norse Language  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5  
2
9  
6

How Many Consonants
30  
20
18  
8

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  
Latin  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2  
1
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)  
hej  

Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)  
tacka dig  

How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)  
hur mår du  

Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)  
godnatt  

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
god kväll  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
god eftermiddag  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
god morgon  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
vänligen  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
ledsen  

Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)  
hej då  

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
jag älskar dig  

Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།  
ursäkta mig  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Gabon  

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Georgia  

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
China  
France  

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
79  
33

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.05 %  
99+
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
5.00 million  
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Svenska  

Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang  
Ruotsi, Svenska  

French Name
tibétain  
suédois  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Schwedisch  

Pronunciation
[tibetan]  
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Swedes, Finland Swedes  

History

Origin
c. 650  
13th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Germanic  

Branch
-  
Northern (Scandinavian)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Swedish  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Standard Swedish  

Language Position
29  
27
89  
99+

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

Scope
-  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
sv  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
swe  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
swe  

ISO 639 3
bod  
swe  

ISO 639 6
bod  
swe  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
swed1254  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
52-AAA-ck to -cw  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
-  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
-  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
-  
-  

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

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Tibetan and Swedish Speaking population

Tibetan and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Tibetan and Swedish on Tibetan vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Swedish Language Codes

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

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