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Tibetan vs Estonian


Estonian vs 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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Tibetan and Estonian Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Estonian language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Estonian language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Estonian language states that this language originated in 13th century. Family of the language also forms a part of history of that language. More on language families of these languages can be found out on Tibetan and Estonian Language History.

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Tibetan and Estonian Greetings

People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Tibetan and Estonian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Estonian language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Estonian word for "Thank You" is aitäh. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Estonian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Estonian Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Estonian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Estonian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Tibetan and Estonian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Estonian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Estonian time required is 44 weeks.

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