Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
China, Nepal
National Language
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
South Africa
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe, North America, South America
Asia
Minority Language
France, Germany, Indonesia
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
- There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.
- 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
German and English Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Alphabets in
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Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
Hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
dankjewel
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
How Are You?
hoe gaat het met je?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Good Night
goede Nacht
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
goedenavond
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
goedemiddag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
goedemorgen
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
alsjeblieft
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
vaarwel
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Ik hou van jou
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
pardon
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Gronings
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Netherlands
China, India, Nepal
Dialect 2
Low Saxon
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
Bhutan, China
Dialect 3
Limburgian
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands
China
Native Name
Nederlands
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Hollands, Nederlands
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
néerlandais; flamand
tibétain
German Name
Niederländisch
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Dutch people
tibetan people
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Standard Dutch
Standard Tibetan
Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Tibetan Sign Language
Glottocode
mode1257
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-ACB-a
No data Available
Language Type
Historical
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Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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Dutch and Tibetan Speaking population
Dutch and Tibetan speaking population is one of the factors based on which Dutch and Tibetan languages can be compared. The total count of Dutch and Tibetan Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Tibetan language is 0.05 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Dutch and Tibetan on Dutch vs Tibetan where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Dutch and Tibetan Language Codes
Dutch and Tibetan language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Dutch and Tibetan Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.