1 Countries
1.1 Countries
European Union, Finland
China, Nepal
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
Nepal, Tibet
1.4 Second Language
Estonia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
China, India, Nepal
1.7 Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
1.8 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.
1.9 Similar To
Estonian and Livonian Languages
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Moi
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
3.2 Thank You
Kiitos
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
3.3 How Are You?
Mitä kuuluu?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
3.4 Good Night
hyvää yötä
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
3.5 Good Evening
Hyvää iltaa
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.6 Good Afternoon
Hyvää iltapäivää
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
3.7 Good Morning
Hyvää huomenta
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
3.8 Please
haluta
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
3.9 Sorry
Anteeksi
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
3.10 Bye
Heippa
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
3.11 I Love You
Minä rakastan sinua
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
3.12 Excuse Me
Anteeksi
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Colloquial Finnish
Central Tibetan
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Finland
China, India, Nepal
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Finland, Rauma
Bhutan, China
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,400,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000.001,800,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
5.40 million1.20 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
5.40 million1.20 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
suomi / suomen kieli
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Suomi
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
ethnic Finns
tibetan people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Uralic Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Tibeto-Burman
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Finnic language
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
6.3.2 Standard Forms
standard Finnish
Standard Tibetan
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Finnish
Tibetan Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available