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Tibetan vs Swedish


Swedish vs Tibetan


Countries

Countries
China, Nepal  
European Union, Finland, Nordic Council, Sweden  

Total No. Of Countries
2  
13
4  
11

National Language
Nepal, Tibet  
Sweden  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Finland  

Speaking Continents
Asia  
Antartica, Europe  

Minority Language
China, India, Nepal  
Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America  

Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  
Institute for the Languages of Finland, Swedish Academy, Swedish Language Council  

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.
  
  • In Swedish language, article comes after noun.
  • Most of the words in Swedish language began "S" than any other letter.
  

Similar To
Not Available  
Norwegian and Danish Language  

Derived From
Not Available  
Old Norse Language  

Alphabets

Alphabets in
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200  
Swedish-Aphabets.jpg#200  

Alphabets
35  
17
29  
11

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
6  
5

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  
god kväll  

Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།  
god eftermiddag  

Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  
god morgon  

Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  
vänligen  

Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  
ledsen  

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

I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)  
jag älskar dig  

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Central Tibetan  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal  
Gabon  

How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00  
27
78,000,000.00  
6

Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
Bhutan, China  
Georgia  

How Many People Speak
1,400,000.00  
23
78,000,000.00  
2

Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan  
Dialects  

Where They Speak
China  
France  

How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00  
16
96,000,000.00  
1

Total No. Of Dialects
6  
6
79  
33

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
Not Available  
0.13 %  
99+

Native Speakers
1.20 million  
99+
8.70 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
Not Available  
5.00 million  
29

Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)  
Svenska  

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

French Name
tibétain  
suédois  

German Name
Tibetisch  
Schwedisch  

Pronunciation
Not Available  
[ˈsvɛ̂nskâ]  

Ethnicity
tibetan people  
Swedes, Finland Swedes  

History

Origin
c. 650  
13th Century  

Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family  
Indo-European Family  

Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman  
Germanic  

Branch
Not Available  
Northern (Scandinavian)  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  
Old Swedish  

Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan  
Standard Swedish  

Language Position
Not Available  
89  
99+

Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language  
Tecknad svenska, ("Signed Swedish")  

Scope
Not Available  
Individual  

Code

ISO 639 1
bo  
sv  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
bod  
swe  

ISO 639 2/B
tib  
swe  

ISO 639 3
bod  
swe  

ISO 639 6
Not Available  
Not Available  

Glottocode
tibe1272  
swed1254  

Linguasphere
No data Available  
52-AAA-ck to -cw  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Not Available  
Living  

Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available  
Subject-Verb-Object  

Language Morphological Typology
Not Available  
Not Available  

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Tibetan and Swedish Language History

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

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

Tibetan vs Swedish Difficulty

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

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