Countries
China, Nepal
  
European Union, Finland
  
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 in
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Finnish-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)
  
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
  
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
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
  
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
  
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
  
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.