Countries
China, Nepal
Estonia, European Union
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 in
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Tartu
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Idamurre
Where They Speak
China
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
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
Origin
c. 650
13th century
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Finno-Ugric
Branch
Not Available
Finnic
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
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
tibe1272
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Language Type
Not Available
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative
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.