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Dutch vs Tibetan


Tibetan vs Dutch


Countries

Countries
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname  
China, Nepal  

Total No. Of Countries
6  
9
2  
13

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  

Derived From
-  
-  

Alphabets

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

Alphabets
26  
8
35  
17

Phonology
  
  

How Many Vowels
6  
3
5  
2

How Many Consonants
21  
11
30  
20

Scripts
Latin  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille  

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

Hard to Learn
  
  

Language Levels
6  
5
2  
1

Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks  
6
24 weeks  
6

Greetings

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།  

Dialects

Dialect 1
Gronings  
Central Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Netherlands  
China, India, Nepal  

How Many People Speak
590,000.00  
99+
1,200,000.00  
99+

Dialect 2
Low Saxon  
Khams Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands  
Bhutan, China  

How Many People Speak
4,000,000.00  
99+
1,400,000.00  
99+

Dialect 3
Limburgian  
Amdo Tibetan  

Where They Speak
Belgium, Netherlands  
China  

How Many People Speak
1,300,000.00  
99+
1,800,000.00  
99+

Total No. Of Dialects
7  
7
6  
6

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
28.00 million  
38
1.20 million  
99+

Speaking Population
0.32 %  
40
0.05 %  
99+

Native Speakers
22.00 million  
35
1.20 million  
99+

Second Language Speakers
6.00 million  
99+
6.00 million  
99+

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  

History

Origin
AD 450-500  
c. 650  

Language Family
Indo-European Family  
Sino-Tibetan Family  

Subgroup
Germanic  
Tibeto-Burman  

Branch
Western  
-  

Language Forms
  
  

Early Forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan  

Standard Forms
Standard Dutch  
Standard Tibetan  

Language Position
48  
99+
29  
27

Signed Forms
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)  
Tibetan Sign Language  

Scope
Individual  
-  

Code

ISO 639 1
nl  
bo  

ISO 639 2
  
  

ISO 639 2/T
nld  
bod  

ISO 639 2/B
dut  
tib  

ISO 639 3
nld  
bod  

ISO 639 6
nld  
bod  

Glottocode
mode1257  
tibe1272  

Linguasphere
52-ACB-a  
No data Available  

Types of Language
  
  

Language Type
Historical  
-  

Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb  
-  

Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic  
-  

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Dutch and Tibetan Language History

Comparison of Dutch vs Tibetan language history gives us differences between origin of Dutch and Tibetan language. History of Dutch language states that this language originated in AD 450-500 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 Dutch and Tibetan Language History.

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

Dutch vs Tibetan Difficulty

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

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