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Swedish and Tibetan


Tibetan and Swedish


Countries

Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden   
China, Nepal   

Total No. Of Countries
4   
11
2   
13

National Language
Sweden   
Nepal, Tibet   

Second Language
Finland   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Antartica, Europe   
Asia   

Minority Language
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America   
China, India, Nepal   

Regulated By
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council   
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   

Interesting Facts
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  
  • 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
Norwegian and Danish Language   
Not Available   

Derived From
Old Norse Language   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200   
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
29   
11
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
6   
5
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
god kväll   
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Afternoon
god eftermiddag   
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   

Good Morning
god morgon   
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   

Please
vänligen   
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   

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

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

I Love You
jag älskar dig   
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Dialects   
Central Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Gabon   
China, India, Nepal   

How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00   
6
1,200,000.00   
27

Dialect 2
Dialects   
Khams Tibetan   

Where They Speak
Georgia   
Bhutan, China   

How Many People Speak
78,000,000.00   
2
1,400,000.00   
23

Dialect 3
Dialects   
Amdo Tibetan   

Where They Speak
France   
China   

How Many People Speak
96,000,000.00   
1
1,800,000.00   
16

Total No. Of Dialects
79   
33
6   
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.13 %   
99+
Not Available   

Native Speakers
8.70 million   
99+
1.20 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
5.00 million   
29
Not Available   

Native Name
Svenska   
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   

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

French Name
suédois   
tibétain   

German Name
Schwedisch   
Tibetisch   

Pronunciation
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
Swedes, Finland Swedes   
tibetan people   

History

Origin
13th Century   
c. 650   

Language Family
Indo-European Family   
Sino-Tibetan Family   

Subgroup
Germanic   
Tibeto-Burman   

Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)   
Not Available   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Swedish   
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   

Standard Forms
Standard Swedish   
Standard Tibetan   

Language Position
89   
99+
Not Available   

Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")   
Tibetan Sign Language   

Scope
Individual   
Not Available   

Code

ISO 639 1
sv   
bo   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
swe   
bod   

ISO 639 2/B
swe   
tib   

ISO 639 3
swe   
bod   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
swed1254   
tibe1272   

Linguasphere
52-AAA-ck to -cw   
No data Available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living   
Not Available   

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object   
Not Available   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Swedish and Tibetan Speaking population

Swedish and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Swedish and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Swedish and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 % 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 Swedish and Tibetan on Swedish vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Swedish and Tibetan Language Codes

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

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