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Tibetan and Swedish


Swedish and Tibetan


Countries

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

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
4   
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Sweden   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Finland   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Antartica, Europe   

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

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

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.
  
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Norwegian and Danish Language   

Derived From
Not Available   
Old Norse Language   

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
35   
17
29   
11

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
6   
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
24 weeks   
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
vänligen   

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

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Dialects   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Gabon   

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

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Dialects   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Georgia   

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

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Dialects   

Where They Speak
China   
France   

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

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
79   
33

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
0.13 %   
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
8.70 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
5.00 million   
29

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

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

French Name
tibétain   
suédois   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Schwedisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
Swedes, Finland Swedes   

History

Origin
c. 650   
13th Century   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Indo-European Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Germanic   

Branch
Not Available   
Northern (Scandinavian)   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Old Swedish   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
Standard Swedish   

Language Position
Not Available   
89   
99+

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

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
sv   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
swe   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
swe   

ISO 639 3
bod   
swe   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
swed1254   

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

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available   
Living   

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available   
Subject-Verb-Object   

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available   
Not Available   

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

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Tibetan and Swedish Speaking population

Tibetan and Swedish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tibetan and Swedish languages can be compared. The total count of Tibetan and Swedish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Swedish language is 0.13 %. 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 Tibetan and Swedish on Tibetan vs Swedish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tibetan and Swedish Language Codes

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

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