Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
Total No. Of Countries
24
0
46
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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 in
Alphabets
3529
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
26
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Dialects
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gabon
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0078,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Dialects
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Georgia
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.0078,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Dialects
Where They Speak
China
France
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0096,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
679
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million15.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.13 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million8.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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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
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
2989
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
Scope
-
Individual
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
-
-