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
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Estonian-Alphabets.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)
  
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
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
  
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
  
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
  
ISO 639 1
bo
  
et
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
bod
  
est
  
ISO 639 2/B
tib
  
est
  
ISO 639 3
bod
  
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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
  
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.