Countries
Estonia, European Union
China, Nepal
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
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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།
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Tartu
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
China
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
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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
Origin
13th century
c. 650
Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Finnic
Not Available
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
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
esto1258
tibe1272
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Language Type
Living
Not Available
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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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.