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