Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Finland
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
Alphabets in
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Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Rauma
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Finland, Rauma
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Meänkieli
Where They Speak
China
Finland, Sweden
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
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Finno-Ugric
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Finnic language
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
standard Finnish
Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Finnish
Glottocode
tibe1272
finn1318
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Tibetan and Finnish Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Finnish language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Tibetan vs Finnish Difficulty
The Tibetan vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Finnish Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.