1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Nepal
European Union, Finland
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden
1.7 Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland
1.8 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.
- Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
- In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Estonian and Livonian Languages
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
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
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
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Moi
3.2 Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Kiitos
3.3 How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Mitä kuuluu?
3.4 Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
hyvää yötä
3.5 Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Hyvää iltaa
3.6 Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Hyvää iltapäivää
3.7 Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Hyvää huomenta
3.8 Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
haluta
3.9 Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Anteeksi
3.10 Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Heippa
3.11 I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Minä rakastan sinua
3.12 Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Anteeksi
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Colloquial Finnish
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Finland
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Finland, Rauma
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,800,000.0060,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.40 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
1.20 million5.40 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
suomi / suomen kieli
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Suomi
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
tibetan people
ethnic Finns
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Finno-Ugric
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Proto-Finnic language
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
standard Finnish
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Finnish
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
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative, Synthetic