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Tibetan vs Finnish


Finnish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal   
European Union, Finland   

Total No. Of Countries
2   
13
2   
13

National Language
Nepal, Tibet   
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden   

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries   
Estonia   

Speaking Continents
Asia   
Asia, Europe   

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal   
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden   

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language   
Institute for the Languages of Finland   

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.
  
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.
  

Similar To
Not Available   
Estonian and Livonian Languages   

Derived From
Not Available   
Not Available   

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200   
Finnish-Alphabets.jpg#200   

Alphabets
35   
17
29   
11

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
5   
2
8   
5

How Many Consonants
30   
20
13   
3

Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille   
Latin   

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   
Left-To-Right, Horizontal   

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
2   
1
4   
3

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks   
6
44 weeks   
11

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Hyvää iltaa   

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།   
Hyvää iltapäivää   

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)   
Hyvää huomenta   

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.   
haluta   

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

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)   
Minä rakastan sinua   

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan   
Colloquial Finnish   

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal   
Finland   

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00   
27
Not Available   

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan   
Rauma   

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China   
Finland, Rauma   

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00   
23
Not Available   

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan   
Meänkieli   

Where They Speak
China   
Finland, Sweden   

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00   
16
60,000.00   
31

Total No. Of Dialects
6   
6
21   
19

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available   
Not Available   

Native Speakers
1.20 million   
99+
5.40 million   
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available   
0.01 million   
39

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)   
suomi / suomen kieli   

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

French Name
tibétain   
finnois   

German Name
Tibetisch   
Finnisch   

Pronunciation
Not Available   
[ˈsuomi]   

Ethnicity
tibetan people   
ethnic Finns   

History

Origin
c. 650   
1543   

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family   
Uralic Family   

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman   
Finno-Ugric   

Branch
Not Available   
Finnic   

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan   
Proto-Finnic language   

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan   
standard Finnish   

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language   
Signed Finnish   

Scope
Not Available   
Individual   

Code

ISO 639 1
bo   
fi   

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod   
fin   

ISO 639 2/B
tib   
fin   

ISO 639 3
bod   
fin   

ISO 639 6
Not Available   
Not Available   

Glottocode
tibe1272   
finn1318   

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, Synthetic   

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Tibetan and Finnish Language History

Comparison of Tibetan vs Finnish language history gives us differences between origin of Tibetan and Finnish language. History of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650 whereas history of Finnish language states that this language originated in 1543. 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 Finnish Language History.

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Tibetan and Finnish 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 Finnish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Tibetan and Finnish language. Tibetan word for "Hello" is བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek) or Finnish word for "Thank You" is Kiitos. Find more of such common Tibetan Greetings and Finnish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Tibetan vs Finnish Difficulty

The Tibetan vs Finnish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Tibetan Alphabets and Finnish 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 Finnish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Tibetan and Finnish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Tibetan is 24 weeks while to learn Finnish time required is 44 weeks.

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