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Estonian vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs 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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Estonian and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Estonian vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Estonian and Tibetan language. History of Estonian language states that this language originated in 13th century whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Estonian and Tibetan Language History.

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Estonian and Tibetan 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 Estonian and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Tibetan language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Estonian vs Tibetan Difficulty

The Estonian vs Tibetan difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian Alphabets and Tibetan 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 Estonian and Tibetan are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Tibetan, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Tibetan time required is 24 weeks.

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