Countries
China, Nepal
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Total No. Of Countries
25
0
46
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National Language
Nepal, Tibet
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Europe, North America, South America
Minority Language
China, India, Nepal
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Regulated By
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
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.
- 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.
Similar To
Nepali and Bhutanese Languages
Norwegian and Swedish
Derived From
-
Old Norse Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3529
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
520
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3020
9
60
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Scripts
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
Hallo
Thank You
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
Mange tak
How Are You?
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
Hvordan har du det?
Good Night
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
God nat
Good Evening
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
God aften
Good Afternoon
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
God eftermiddag
Good Morning
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
God morgen
Please
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
Please
Sorry
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
Undskyld!
Bye
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
Farvel
I Love You
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
Jeg elsker dig
Excuse Me
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
Undskyld mig
Dialect 1
Central Tibetan
Scanian
Where They Speak
China, India, Nepal
Sweden
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.0080,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Jutlandic
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Denmark
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Bornholmsk
Where They Speak
China
Island of Bornholm
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
64
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million5.50 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.07 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million5.50 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
6.00 million6.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
dansk
Alternative Names
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
Dansk, Rigsdansk
French Name
tibétain
danois
German Name
Tibetisch
Dänisch
Pronunciation
[tibetan]
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
Ethnicity
tibetan people
Danish people or Danes
Origin
c. 650
c. 1100 AD
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Rigsdansk
Language Position
2918
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Danish
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
da
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
dan
ISO 639 2/B
tib
dan
ISO 639 3
bod
dan
ISO 639 6
bod
dan
Glottocode
tibe1272
dani1284
Linguasphere
No data Available
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Types of Language
Language Type
-
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional