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Finnish and Tibetan


Tibetan and Finnish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Estonia   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  
  • 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
Estonian and Livonian Languages   
Not Available   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29   
11
35   
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
8   
5
5   
2

How Many Consonants
13   
3
30   
20

Scripts
Latin   
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
4   
3
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks   
11
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

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

Good Night
hyvää yötä   
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)   

Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
haluta   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

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

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

I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Finland   
China, India, Nepal   

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

Dialect 2
Rauma   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma   
Bhutan, China   

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

Dialect 3
Meänkieli   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Finland, Sweden   
China   

How Many People Speak
60,000.00   
31
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
21   
19
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
5.40 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
0.01 million   
39
Not Available   

Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

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

French Name
finnois   
tibétain   

German Name
Finnisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈsuomi]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
ethnic Finns   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
1543   
c. 650   

Language Family
Uralic Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Finno-Ugric   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Finnic   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
standard Finnish   
Standard Tibetan   

Signed Forms
Signed Finnish   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
fi   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
fin   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
fin   
tib   

ISO 639 3
fin   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
finn1318   
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, Synthetic   
Not Available   

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

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Finnish and Tibetan Speaking population

Finnish and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Finnish and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Finnish and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Finnish language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Finnish and Tibetan on Finnish vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Finnish and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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