Countries
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden
  
China, Nepal
  
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 in
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
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།
  
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
How Many People Speak?
15.00 million
  
99+
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
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
  
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
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
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