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