Countries
Norway
China, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Norway
Nepal, Tibet
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, South America
Asia
Minority Language
Nynorsk
China, India, Nepal
Regulated By
Norwegian Language Council
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Interesting Facts
- Bergen is one of the Norwegian dialect which has only two genders: common and neuter.
- Since Norwegian language uses pitch accents, it has musical quality and are sometimes employed to distinguish the meanings of homonyms.
- 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
Swedish and Danish Languages
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2935
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
95
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2030
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
hallo
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Thank You
takk
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 natt
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
Good Evening
god kveld
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Afternoon
god ettermiddag
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
Good Morning
god morgen
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
Please
Vær så snill
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Sorry
unnskyld
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Bye
ha det
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
I Love You
Jeg Elsker Deg
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Excuse Me
unnskyld meg
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Dialect 1
Jamtlandic
Central Tibetan
Where They Speak
Jamtland,Harjedalen
China, India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
30,000.001,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Sognamål
Khams Tibetan
Where They Speak
Sogn
Bhutan, China
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,400,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Hallingmål-Valdris
Amdo Tibetan
Where They Speak
Hallingdal, Valdres
China
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.001,800,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
196
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
5.00 million1.20 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.07 %0.05 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
5.00 million1.20 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
5.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Norsk
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
Alternative Names
Norsk
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
French Name
norvégien nynorsk; nynorsk, norvégien
tibétain
German Name
Nynorsk
Tibetisch
Pronunciation
[nɔʂk] (Eastern Norwegian)
[nɔʁsk] (Western Norwegian)
[tibetan]
Ethnicity
Norwegians
tibetan people
Origin
c. 1300 AD
c. 650
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Germanic
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
Northern (Scandinavian)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Norse language, Old Norwegian, Middle Norwegian, Modern Norwegian
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Standard Forms
Nynorsk, Bokmål
Standard Tibetan
Language Position
1829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Norwegian
Tibetan Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
-
ISO 639 1
no
bo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
nor
bod
ISO 639 2/B
nor
tib
ISO 639 3
nor
bod
ISO 639 6
nor
bod
Glottocode
norw1258
tibe1272
Linguasphere
52-AAA-ba to -be; 52-AAA-cf to -cg
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
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