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Tibetan and Estonian


Estonian and Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
Estonia, European Union   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Estonia, Gambia   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Not spoken in any of the countries   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Denmark, Russia, Sweden   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Institute of the Estonian Language   

Interesting Facts
  • 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.
  
  • Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
  • Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Finnish   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
27   
9

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
9   
6

How Many Consonants
30   
20
18   
8

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
2   
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Tere õhtust   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Tere päevast   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Tere hommikust   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
Palun   

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

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
ma armastan sind   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Keskmurre   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Tartu   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Georgia, South Estonia   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Idamurre   

Where They Speak
China   
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
Not Available   

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
8   
8

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
0.95 million   
99+

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
eesti keel   

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

French Name
tibétain   
estonien   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Estnisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
Not Available   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Estonians   

History

Origin
c. 650   
13th century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
No early forms   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Estonian   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Estonian Sign Language   

Scope
Not Available   
Macrolanguage   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
et   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
est   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
est   

ISO 639 3
bod   
est   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
esto1258   

Linguasphere
No data Available   
No data available   

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Agglutinative   

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

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Tibetan and Estonian Speaking population

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Tibetan and Estonian Language Codes

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

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