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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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