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Estonian and Tibetan


Tibetan and Estonian


Countries

Countries
Estonia, European Union   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Estonia, Gambia   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Finnish   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
27   
9
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
9   
6
5   
2

How Many Consonants
18   
8
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb   
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས། (kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)   

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

Good Evening
Tere õhtust   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Tere päevast   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Tere hommikust   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
Palun   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

Sorry
Vabandust   
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)   

Bye
Head aega   
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)   

I Love You
ma armastan sind   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Keskmurre   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
Tartu   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Idamurre   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.   
China   

How Many People Speak
Not Available   
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
8   
8
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
0.95 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Native Name
eesti keel   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

Alternative Names
Eesti keel   
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang   

French Name
estonien   
tibétain   

German Name
Estnisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Estonians   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
13th century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Finnic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
No early forms   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Estonian   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Macrolanguage   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
et   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
est   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
est   
tib   

ISO 639 3
est   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
esto1258   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
No data available   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative   
Not Available   

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

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Estonian and Tibetan Speaking population

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Estonian and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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