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Danish vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Danish


Countries

Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
5  
10
2  
13

National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland  
Nepal, Tibet  

Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries  
Not spoken in any of the countries  

Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America  
Asia  

Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America  
China, India, Nepal  

Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language  

Interesting Facts
  • Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
  • There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
  
  • 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.
  

Similar To
Norwegian and Swedish  
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages  

Derived From
Old Norse Language  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
29  
11
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
20  
17
5  
2

How Many Consonants
20  
10
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
3  
2
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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

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

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

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

Good Evening
God aften  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།  

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

Good Morning
God morgen  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)  

Please
Please  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.  

Sorry
Undskyld!  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)  

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

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

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

Dialects

Dialect 1
Scanian  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Sweden  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
80,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Jutlandic  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Denmark  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Bornholmsk  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm  
China  

How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00  
34
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
4  
4
6  
6

How Many People Speak

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

Speaking Population
0.07 %  
99+
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
5.50 million  
99+
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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

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

French Name
danois  
tibétain  

German Name
Dänisch  
Tibetisch  

Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]  
[tibetan]  

Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes  
tibetan people  

History

Origin
c. 1100 AD  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
-  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
-  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Rigsdansk  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
18  
16
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Danish  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
da  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
dan  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
dan  
tib  

ISO 639 3
dan  
bod  

ISO 639 6
dan  
bod  

Glottocode
dani1284  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Living  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Fusional  
-  

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Danish and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Danish vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Danish and Tibetan language. History of Danish language states that this language originated in c. 1100 AD whereas history of Tibetan language states that this language originated in c. 650. 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 Danish and Tibetan Language History.

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Danish and Tibetan 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 Danish and Tibetan greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Danish and Tibetan language. Danish word for "Hello" is Hallo or Tibetan word for "Thank You" is ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay). Find more of such common Danish Greetings and Tibetan Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.

Danish vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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