Countries
China, Nepal
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname
Total No. Of Countries
26
0
46
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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
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3526
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3021
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
26
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)
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
How Many People Speak
1,200,000.00590,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Khams Tibetan
Low Saxon
Where They Speak
Bhutan, China
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
1,400,000.004,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Amdo Tibetan
Limburgian
Where They Speak
China
Belgium, Netherlands
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
67
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
1.20 million28.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.05 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
1.20 million22.00 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)
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
Origin
c. 650
AD 450-500
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Tibeto-Burman
Germanic
Branch
-
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Tibetan
Standard Dutch
Language Position
2948
1
120
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Signed Forms
Tibetan Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
bo
nl
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
bod
nld
ISO 639 2/B
tib
dut
ISO 639 3
bod
nld
ISO 639 6
bod
nld
Glottocode
tibe1272
mode1257
Linguasphere
No data Available
52-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
-
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Synthetic